On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:55 pm, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. >
OK, yes, I'm using Fedora core 3. When you say "NM supports static IP", you mean it "just works"? Assuming I have a working FC3 setup with static IP, I can install NM (e.g., using yum) and it should just work? _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
