On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:51 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm wondering about static IP. I use openvpn, and need a static IP because > my wireless router has to be configd to forward the openvpn port to the > correct IP for my laptop. > > I read that networkmanager doesn't support static IP? I think the > architecture I just described requires it. I don't think my linksys allows > it's dhcp server to be configured to fix the IP from the MAC address. I > think the architecture I just described can't be very unusual. Any ideas?
Hi, Technically, yes, NM supports Static IP. This is highly distribution dependent though, since each distro has its own config file format for this stuff. On Fedora Core, for example, this information is kept in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<your interface>. For Fedora, Static IP should work, with the exception of /etc/resolv.conf. We currently don't touch /etc/resolv.conf at all in Static IP configurations, which means you won't have automatic DNS when using NM like this :( It's not been a top priority for me, but I should probably fix that up. I think system-config-network on Fedora keeps the /etc/resolv.conf around somewhere for each interface or something like that, I don't actually know. If I did, I could fix it up fairly easily I suspect. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
