On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 10:25 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 13:03:36 Dan Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:59 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 13:08 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > > > I like a lot about how NetworkManager works. I especially like the way > > > > it handles wireless connects. > > > > > > > > However, there is a NetworkManager "feature" that is extremely > > > > annoying: creating new/additional device entries in its list of devices > > > > ... sometimes one or more additional entries with the same name and > > > > sometimes "Auto eth_" entries. > > > > > > Which new/additional device entries and what are their names? When this > > > happens, can you run 'nm-tool' for me and paste the output in here? > > > > > > The "Auto eth_" entries are there so that you can connect to *something* > > > by clicking on it even when there's configuration defined. Otherwise, > > > you'd have nothing in the menu and no way to connect the device. There > > > are a few corner cases where more than one could appear, but I haven't > > > seen those in quite a while. > > > > > > > This has become especially annoying with a qemu-kvm guest where on of > > > > the NICs needs to have "Use this entry for network connections only on > > > > its network" checked ... new entries are created when NetworkManager > > > > starts which do not have the check. > > > > > > > > If there a way to disable this feature? [new/additional entries] > > > > > > Do you have backing system connections for any of these devices? > > > Basically, a fake "auto" connection will be shown for any device that > > > doesn't already have a connection defined either in GConf or via > > > system-settings (/etc/network/interfaces for Debian/Ubuntu, ifcfg for > > > suse/fedora, and /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections for all distros > > > depending on the plugin that's been enabled > > > in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf). > > > > Also note that you'll want to lock connections to certain NICs using MAC > > addresses. That way the connection that you mark "only use this > > connection for resources on its network" will always get assigned to the > > same NIC and your network setup will be stable. You can do that by > > typing in the NIC's MAC address in the "Wired" tab for that connection, > > in the "MAC Address" field. > > So, both "System" and "Auto" devices have had MAC addresses filled in without > anything done by me. > > As far as setting "only use this connection for resources on its network", I > did have this work "at one time" but now seems to be consistently failing to > set ... I can edit the device connection, check the box, and then save/apply > this change. However, when I re-edit that device, the box is no longer > checked?
Hmm, you seem to be using an older version of NetworkManager... what specific version do you have? Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
