manually fixing IPs

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:58:06PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:48:14 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote
> > NM supports static IPs these days. So I think that rather than
> > hacking around NM, you should just fix the IP inside NM's
> > configuration and have NM work FOR you rather than AGAINST you.
> 
> I'm sorry, but by the time I have clicked through the GUI to do
> that I have configured the interface via ip, did what I wanted to
> do and unconfigured the interface again.
> 
> I uncheck "Enable networking" in nm-applet before doing that,
> and for me that makes NM keep it's grubby paws off my manually
> configured interface, so I'm not complaining.

You don't need to use the GUI.  Just edit 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* with a static IP and NM will 
pick it up right away and configure it.