On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:42 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 16:59:29 Dan Williams wrote: > > > 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? > > I have x86_64 F12alpha installed as another qemu-kvm guest and I re-ran my > test.
That version in F-12 has it's own problems because it's an earlier snapshot; I've updated NM in F12 with a ton of fixes and you'll find it as -2.git20090921. Give that a shot. Dan > My default NIC on this system is the regular qemu NAT NIC (192.168.122.0/24) > which comes up as eth1. First, I updated this system to make sure it had the > latest NetworkManager: > NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.7.996-1.git20090826.fc12 > > Then I shut the system down and added a second NIC on a qemu private (not > NATed or routed) network (192.168.217.0/24) which comes up as eth2. After > booting, NM brought up both System eth1 and Auto eth2 networks up ... eth2 > was > first and then eth1 so routing was correct. > > Using system-config-network I added the "System eth2" definition. Then I > selected System eth2 rather than Auto eth2 from the NM-applet ... OK. I then > restarted NetworkManager ... Auto eth2 disappears and I have System eth1 and > System eth2 ... again eth2 is started first and eth1 last so routing is > correct. > > I then edit the NM configuration from the applet and set (check) "only use > this > connection for resources on its network". After saving/applying everything, I > again restart NM ... both networks come up with eth1 last so routing is still > correct. However, when I go to see of the box I checked was still checked, I > found it was not. > > I have no idea what determines to order used to bring up interfaces. > > Gene > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
