On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:08 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:45:57AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > static addressing,
>
> If you want to do that, you just don't use NetworkManager.
That then requires someone ensures every single script/option/method called
by NetworkManager is also called by the old style paths.
Not sure about that. The "old style" is very manual. NetworkManager is
entirely dynamic and moving as much per-user as possible. There are
probably things on the old path that shouldn't be used by
NetworkManager, or if they are used, it should just be as fallbacks.
It also prevents
numerous sensible real world usages like "dynamic IP on wireless but prefer
my static IP on ethernet when at home" - classic configuration.
If you care enough to want a static IP address at home, then it
shouldn't be problematic to set up a DHCP server that has static IPs for
your MACs.
> > cable modems,
>
> My experience is these are all just DHCP.
Your experience is incomplete.
I am well aware of that :)
> > ppp, ...
>
> This is tricky in a NetworkManager world, since there is no way to know
> when the user has plugged in a phone cable into their modem (AFAIK).
> Probably we will just require using system-config-network for this case