On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:19 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > Now, apart from the very frustrating experience, is this intended > > behavior? If so, does it really have to be this way? > > > Yes its intended behaviour. Networkmanager at the moment works with dhcp > only its intended more for laptops where you will be using many > different networks. it makes it easy to change. and different networks > have different requirements. one thing that would be a nice addon. is if > the dhcp server gives out a proxy server it setsup iptables rules to > forward all traffic to port 80 and 21 to the proxy server. so you never > need to configure browsers, etc It does work with any static IP address you have configured with system-config-network. It will apply the IP & DNS configuration you've selected using system-config-network Profiles on startup. NM blows away your /etc/resolv.conf because it uses a local caching nameserver to deal with horrible glibc resolver dropouts when network switches occur. That's not likely to change, what may change would be the ability to add custom entries to the caching nameserver's config. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
