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

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:58, Don Raboud wrote:

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

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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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- in section "Network Setup Method" select Traditional Method with ifup. <snip> -- Yamaban, - who really dislikes the "Network Manager" behavior, - out.

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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.

Wow! Never thougt of this in conjuction with Network Manager. For a "normal" Desktop with "just" one ip this should work for sure. (My setup is much more complex, three eth, one with two IPv4, one with six IPv4 and four IPv6, and one with zero IPv4 but eight IPv6, all with vlan config, a bit much for Network Manager. And then comes the routing. No fun at all the first time, but great when it works.) Cheers, and kudos to you, please be so nice and share your solution in the forum. -- Yamaban, out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org