On Wed, 05.03.08 16:43, Dan Williams (dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Are those people...looking at using zeroconf. I get the reasoning for > > > avoiding NM in a more controlled networking situation... but zeroconf > > > seems like NM's bread and butter to me... but what the hell do i know. > > > > > > -jef > > > > > > How about static IPs and multiple concurrent networks? I couldn't get > > either to work with network manager in F8 > > A single static IP per interface works pretty well if you use the NM in > updates-testing (svn3370) and have set it up to use static IP in > system-config-network. Multiple IPs per interface will come eventually. > It'll even work before login. > > Multiple concurrent networks are what I'm working on right now; pretty > good progress here and I hope to land something in the next week or so > in F9, and when it's pretty solid it will also show up in F8. I haven't been following NM development lately. Just wondering: is there an option to explicitly select IPV4LL for configuring an IP address, instead of relying on dhcp-with-ipv4ll-fallback? This could be very useful for speeding up configuration in networks where most likely no dhcp is around, such as wlan ad-hoc, bluetooth pan, ethernet cross cable, usb-to-usb, ... Those ad-hoc networks are usually created _ad hoc_ i.e. temporarily, and thus configuration should be quick. So it'd be best if nm wouldn't do dhcp in these situations to avoid the long timeout. i.e. what I am thinking is: besides "dhcp" and "static" configuration for network interfaces, allow a special "zeroconf" configuration option. For the aforementioned ad-hoc network types default to "zeroconf", for the others to "dhcp" -- and then, allow people to switch to the other mode if they are so crazy to have a wlan ad-hoc network with dhcp, or a wlan infrastracture network without. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
