Sunny wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 6:26 AM, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
You are right, it can't be set in KNetworkManager. But I set it up in YaST/Network Devices/Network Card. I set the ethernet card as static IP and the wireless as DHCP. NetworkManager honours the static IP, whenever I am plugged into the network.
Therein lies the problem. I prefer to use static IP at home and DHCP elsewhere. While I can use DHCP at home I prefer static, as I have different addresses for when the computer is running Linux or Windows.
Then use different profiles for home, work and everywhere else. Look at SCP. You can set every profile with different settings, incl. if you want your network controlled by network manager or ifup/down system. So in every profile you can set which card gets static IP, which one DHCP, etc.
Then, upon boot, or later you can change the profiles.
Cheers
I have used profile manager in the past and found it had issues with KNetworkManager. The online docs also say there are issues with using both. But instead of all this, the question is why is it so difficult to get a simple feature included in KNetworkMananger? Even Windows lets you default to a static address, if DHCP is not available.
I agree on this, that it misses some functionality. I often have to go to customers to configure adsl-modems/routers/accesspoints, that have fixed IP's outside of the dhcp range used in the network (especially the AP's and wireless bridges). In windows I can easily use a fixed address, and configure a DNS by hand, changing back to dhcp with a few clicks to test if it works. I can even use fixed IP on the eth-adapter and dhcp on the wireless at the same time. In suse I have to do a lot more to reach that. I would vote for a possibility in NetworkManager to use a fixed address, fixed dns, fixed gateway, etc. on a per-adapter basis.
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