Re: [opensuse-kde] [Workaround] Network Manager - how to control automatic connection?

On Monday, March 28, 2011 04:37:05 am Yamaban wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:01, Don Raboud wrote:

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Is there a way to force Network Manager to autoconnect using a fixed IP address? There is a conection present called "Auto eth0" which takes precedence over my defined connection "Fixed IP".

Under Manage Connections there is no "Auto eth0" listed, so it appears to be built in and I can't change anything about it. Under my defined connection "Fixed IP" "Connect automatically" is checked but that hasn't helped. (There is also a greyed-out unchecked box "System connection".)

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Here is what I do:

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- in section "Network Setup Method" select Traditional Method with ifup.

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-- Yamaban, - who really dislikes the "Network Manager" behavior, - out.

8-) Thanks Yamaban for the detailed instructions! That would however leave me back at the traditional method (an option I was considering) but I am trying to get Network Manager to work predictably with respect to automagically assigned IP addresses. In the meantime, I think I have found a workaround. Network Manager calls dhcpclient when an automatic connection needs to be made. So I edited /etc/dhclient.conf by adding the following lines to the end of the default supplied file interface "eth0" { fixed-address 192.168.1.65; } so that dhclient will request this specific IP address. The router happily supplies it, so I now get the desired behavior. Hopefully nothing else gets messed up by this change, but as this is my home machine with one wired connection only, I don't think this will cause any problems. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org