Can't get NetworkManager to configure ntp
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 4 21:46:56 UTC 2007
> Yes, this is getting off the subject. The real issue here is:
>
> 1) NetworkManager does not implement a good chunk of the configuration
> functionality available via DHCP. From what I can see, it ignores
> ntp-servers, domain-name, and host-name. The only thing it does,
> apparently, is set the IP address, the subnet mask, the routing table, and
> generate /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> 2) Even though dhclient-script is perfectly capable of handling the
> remaining DHCP options that NetworkManager does not yet implement, it is
> prevented from doing so. I cannot see any good reason for that.
>
> 3) None of the above is documented anywhere. It would've saved me a great
> deal of trouble if some README somewhere simply told me: yes, NetworkManager
> does not implement X and Y.
>
> The only reason I haven't filed a bug in Bugzilla is because I'm really only
> about 70% sure of the above, based on the snippets of code I looked at so
> far, and I've hacked around this mess using NetworkManagerDispatcher. I
> don't like to file bugs in Bugzilla only to get a NOTABUG (it's implemented,
> but you don't know the magic incantation for finding the documentation how
> to set it up).
Whatever the problem is you are complaining to the wrong list. Post to:
networkmanager-list at gnome.org
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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