starting Fedora Server SIG

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 21:49:20 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:17 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:13 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> >> I agree with the desire to maintain only one tool. However, NM is
> >> extremely desktop oriented, and there seems to include no hint of an
> >> intention to support the complex setups that are possible with the old
> >> ifcfg infra.
> >
> > Really?  Most of the work over the past couple of years in NM seems to
> > be aimed at trying to support these cases as opposed to just the
> > "simple" desktop case
> 
> That's odd -- I've never seen any of it. Are there good examples of
> how you configure a server to do special stuff with it? Or a
> 'scripting network-manager' guide somewhere?

Static IP, multiple interfaces, custom routes, custom DNS servers,
custom DNS search domains, etc.

Dan





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