19->20: now NM won't set static address

Sean Darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 19:18:40 UTC 2014


On 04/11/2014 03:01 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 14:49:26 -0400,
>    Sean Darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Googling suggest I need to disable NM altogether:
>>
>> http://danielgibbs.co.uk/2014/01/fedora-20-set-static-ip-address/
>>
>> Is this correct? Can't NM handle static addresses?
>
> You should be able to use a config file for dhclient that says not to
> use the name server data in dhcp responses. I do this for laptops, but I
> don't have one handy to get the exact config for. You used to have to
> name the config file after the interface, but now you seem to be able to
> do it using a generic name.
>
> For non-laptop machines I use still use the network service instead of
> NetworkManager, but that is mostly out of habit at this point.

But if I reconfigure dhclient that could mess up getting the dynamic 
address for external. And, I don't think it'd solve my problem with NM. 
NM would just continue to call dhclient, whether or not dhclient uses 
name server data.

sean



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