system-config-network & Zeroconf

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 21:25:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>  >  Well, eventually the connection editor could potentially replace the GUI
>  >  functionality of s-c-n and ifup/ifdown could be pointed at NM, but we're
>  >  not there yet.  There's a few more device types that NM would need to
>  >  support (mainly PPPoE/PPPoATM connections, good ISDN, etc) before we
>  >  could think about replacing anything.  They are going to be parallel but
>  >  mutually exclusive for the time being.  Also there will be some people
>  >  who won't ever want to use NM for some setups even though NM could work
>  >  for them; but that's fine.
>
>  Are those people...looking at using zeroconf. I get the reasoning for
>  avoiding NM in a more controlled networking situation... but zeroconf
>  seems like NM's bread and butter to me... but what the hell do i know.
>
>  -jef


How about static IPs and multiple concurrent networks? I couldn't get
either to work with network manager in F8

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