ipv4 address disappear

[Cameron Simpson]

On 08Oct2010 16:29, cheng chen <freakrobot at acm.org> wrote:
| 2010/10/8 Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com>
| >  On Friday 08 October 2010 11:26 AM, cheng chen wrote:
| > And I set the Fedora13 ip address with command "ifconfig eth0
| > 192.168.1.101"
| > but each time after I use embedded board's u-boot to ping the computer it
| > says "192.168.1.101 is alive". So it's OK.
| > Then I check my PC with command "ifconfig",
| > eth0's ipv4 address is disappeared. [...]
| >
| >  are you using networkmanager ....  ???
|
| Ah,ja. It seems that I should stop this service.
| But may I know the reason how this would happen?

Setting the IP address using "ifconfig" sets it for the OS.
But it does not store it in any config files.
NetworkManager will be consulting (unchanged) config files and applying
them, undoing your ifconfig command.

Cheers,
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