On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Uwe Geuder <[email protected]> wrote: > If I understood it correctly in Debian/Ubuntu network manager will leave > additional interfaces defined in /etc/interfaces unmanaged. > > So you can combine your "main" internet access managed by networkmanager > (eth0, wlan0, ppp0 depending on where you are) with "additional" manual > network setting you might need insided you machine (e.g. for various > virtual machines you might be running) > > Did I understand that corrcectly? > > However, in OpenSUSE I cannot see how to achieve anything similar. As > soon as network manager is enabled, ifup does not work any longer. > > From what I see in the source code this is pretty unconditional: > > from /usr/src/packages/BUILD/sysconfig-0.74.5/scripts/ifup: (OpenSUSE 11.4) > > ---clip--- > > ###################################################################### > # Check if NetworkManager is running, inform the user and exit > # > if [ "$NETWORKMANAGER" = yes ] && ! netcontrol_running ; then > if [ "$SCRIPTNAME" != ifdown -a "$INTERFACE" != lo ] ; then > mesg "Network interface is managed by the NetworkManager -> > skipping" > exit $R_NOTIMPL > fi > elif nm_running && [ "$INTERFACE" != lo ] ; then > mesg "Network interface is managed by the NetworkManager -> skipping" > exit $R_NOTIMPL > fi > > --- clip --- > > Hopefully I'm just missing something here. > > Often it helps to know what one really wants to achieve, so here it > goes: > > I need a bridge device for Xen. I let network manager take care of the > internet access (this is a laptop) The straight forward approach putting > the current "internet" interface chosen by network manager on the bridge > would require to set the network address & routing to the bridge device > instead of eth0/wlan0/ppp0. I don't think network manager can handle > that. > > So my idea was to leave the bridge unmanaged from network manager, give > it a static internal IP address and use ipforward together with NAT to > connect the bridge with network manager's current "internet" > interface. However, no it looks in OpenSUSE I cannot even run "ifup br0" > when network manager is running. The best way is to use ifup mode in openSUSE, and if you wanna use the NM, you could try to use 'unmanaged-devices=mac:<hwaddr>;" in NetworkManager.conf. you can find more with 'man NetworkManager.conf'
> Regards, > > Uwe > > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > Sincerely Yours, Bin Li http://zh.opensuse.org _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
