Different NetworkManager DHCP behavior in F8

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 17:55:27 UTC 2007


Mike Cronenworth wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I upgraded from F7 to F8 using yum on a 32-bit desktop machine and a
> 64-bit desktop machine. Everything worked well (minus one minor issue
> with expat on 64-bit), however, the NetworkManager application is not
> acting the same under a DHCP envrionment.
> 
> I am used to having "send host-name "hostname";" in my
> /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf file to give my computers a DNS-mapped IP
> through DHCP. This worked well with F7. It does not work with F8 (no
> hostname is sent). I have to stop the NetworkManager service and perform
> a "service network restart" command in order to send the host name
> correctly.
> 
> It also gives me a nice warning upon logging into XFCE since it cannot
> find my hostname since NetworkManager didn't send it to the DHCP server
> to turn into a DNS name. Rather annoying.
> 
> I searched the bugzilla for NetworkManager bugs and came up with
> nothing. Is this a problem with my configuration or a new bug?
> 
> Mike
> 
Same here




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