NetworkManager, is it important?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:42:40PM -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 11:40 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:15:39 -0400
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >
> >> connects
> >> at boot
> >
> > I still have to disable it in f13 to get my static IP address
> > to work correctly at boot time.
> 
> I get a static IP within my local network behind the router with NM 
> without any fiddling. I am even connected to the network on boot (I m 
> presuming being able to use yum in runlevel 3 is proof to that).
> 
> Is that what you mean?

I have a static IP working fine with NetworkManager.  Run
system-config-network or edit the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or the appropriate file for
the interface) by hand, and add:

NM_CONTROLLED=no

to the file.  That means NetworkManager will not try to fiddle with
it.

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