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

Sean Darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 19:44:10 UTC 2014


  On 04/11/2014 03:18 PM, Sean Darcy wrote:
> 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
>
  And I've thoguht of going back to network,service, but i'm worried 
that since it's deprecated, I've got to figure out NM sometime.

sean



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