Quoting Pat Suwalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeff Moore wrote: >> I am hoping that something like the nm-edit suggestion below is in the >> works or is already implemented. I don't have a very good knowledge of >> the inner workings of NM so I would like to ask all of you if there is >> something in place that would allow an individual to statically set an >> interfaces properties? > > I have this planned, with a nice little UI for it in my mind, but it > needs some networkmanager work. The applet itself currently does not > store any IP settings, and I think the backend itself only does DHCP at > the moment. > >> I have little to no programming experience but this is something that I >> am so interested in that I would be willing to learn. Any tips pointers >> etc.? > > Essentially, the backend would have to call out to "ifconfig <ip> > <netmask> up" and then call "route add default gw <foo>" and then edit > the /etc/resolv.conf file to add DNS. Next, the dbus communication > between the backend and the applet would need to support transferring > those settings, and the applet would need to store them. Adding editing > to the currently-alpha-grade editor wouldn't be too bad after that. >
This all sounds great. But there is one issue imo: It always requires a logged in user, because the configuration has to be passed from nm-applet to NM. One wish I have for NM 0.7 is to have system profiles, so the administrator could setup default profiles for certain wired/wireless/static ip/dynamic ip connections. Atm if you have a machine which is used by multiple users, everyone has to configure the network individually. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail was sent through TecO-Webmail: http://www.teco.edu _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
