NetworkManager 0.7 and static IP - how ?!?

[Bill Davidsen]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:33:21 -0400
> "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
>> *OR* you tell your laptop to *NOT* use DHCP for the ethernet interface,
>> and configure your static address using system-config-network.
> 
> I think you would then lose the benefit of using Network Manager.  It's easiest
> (in my opinion) to let Network Manager handle all network connections on a
> laptop that moves around from place to place.
> 
>>  This may
>> ultimately involve using some sort of network profiles if your static
>> address at home differs from your static address at work.
> 
> Again, Network Manager will do all of the dirty work for you, if you just set
> up your dhcp server to provide a static address to your machine if it's
> required.
> 
Frank, unless I totally misread the the original post, there is no "your 
dhcp server" to configure to anything, he has been told to use a static 
IP address. That means his computer doesn't ask for an IP, it uses the 
same IP all the time.

I found that it is possible to remove the NM software and own your 
computer again. Then you use one script to start using DHCP and one for 
each static IP you use (I never had more than two).

I also have a script to start the WiFi NIC, which so far is always DHCP.

NM is one of those things which works really well as long as you 
structure your computer use to do things the way it wants (sounds like 
Windows, doesn't it). When you do something out of the ordinary it's 
often easier to do it manually.

Using a laptop as an AP to a wired network connection comes to mind as 
another one of the things which is easier to do by hand, using familiar 
tools. I'm unconvinced that you can get NM to do it at all, but I make 
no pretense of being an expert in NM guru-level configuration.

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