I'm running Ubuntu 8.10. I have an older Linksys router that allows port forwarding (i.e. I can port forward ssh traffic to a specific IP address.
The router unfortunately does not allow mapping MAC addresses to IP addresses, so I must use a fixed static ip address on the Linux machine running sshd. My question is what's the difference between adding static settings in /etc/network/interfaces vs. "Edit Connections..." in nm-applet? One nice thing about using the dhcpd client on the Linksys router is that the name servers in my /etc/resolv.conf were set automatically (by whatever the ISP's dhcpd client sends to the linksys router). Now, I have to manually config the name servers, it seems. So, if the ISP's name servers ever change I would need to update the connection info. Is there a way to say use dhcpd to get nameservers but still used a fixed IP address (when the router's dhcpd won't do MAC to IP address mapping)? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [email protected] Sent from my iMutt _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
