On 6/29/07, Bluejack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahoy... I've been beating my head against a wall for several days now > trying to understand what gnome is doing to my network connection. I > have a dsl modem with cat 5 into a hub, and then my several machines > on wire to the hub. My windows machines are all on dhcp and plenty > happy. The dsl modem is the dhcp server. > > However, gnome's Desktop->Administration->Networking settings, when > set to dhcp pick up some rubbish, invalid nameservers. I still don't > know where they are coming from, or why. > > So I used the Networking admin to turn off dhcp, use a local ip > address outside my dhcp range, and specify the nameservers explicitly. > However, NetworkManager periodically throws out these settings and > reverts my system to the rubbish settings. > > I'd be perfectly content to simply disable all this gui junk and go > with ifconfig and /etc/resolv.conf, but I thought I'd see if I could > get any insight into how this is *supposed* to work, and what might be > wrong with my installation. > > BTW: is Desktop->Administration->Networking related to NetworkManager? > Because that is one annoying piece of admin gui. You can define a > location, but changing setting while in a location doesn't edit the > location as you might expect. In fact, there seems to be no way to > edit a location. Moreover, if you set a location, and then open the > gui again, it automatically reverts to whatever settings > NetworkManager, in its wisdom, has imposed on the machine. Selecting > the location again may or may not work. > > Hope you folks can help me understand what interplay of administrative > helpers are currently driving me out of my mind. > > -Bluejack > >
What distribution are you running? Network Manager accepts whatever DNS servers your DHCP server gives out are you trying to use some that are different than what it gives out? _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
