Peter Snoblin wrote:
system-config-network works on my CentOS and RHEL systems, from what I understand of Fedora, it should be much the same.
Yeah...that's the point. It should...but it doesn't. That is the same way as I have already tried to set it.
You can see in this screenshot (http://rossday.net/system-config-network.png) that I have the static options set in the configuration tool, but the terminal running ifconfig in the background shows that it doesn't care.
It uses the static IP for a while, but then it just decides that statics are no fun anyway and gets a DHCP one.
It's because the "dhclient" program is running, but I've found no "correct" way to manipulate its behavior. Trying to set the dhclient.conf so that it uses a fixed-address option doesn't seem to matter, and dhclient (or anything seemingly dhcp-related) isn't one of the services controled by /sbin/service.
For now, I have killed the dhclient processes. If it does re-trigger them, then maybe it will actually read the config file and DTRT. If it doesn't get restarted unless the computer is rebooted, it's not really a problem since that system gets restarted once in a blue moon.
I'd still like to say that I commented out the dhcp line and uncommented the static line in /etc/conf.d/net and that was all it took to fix it in Gentoo...no stupid graphical tools that don't really work or other crap that the user seemingly has no control over. Simple...and it works. Period.
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