upgrade to rawhide report

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 14:06:17 UTC 2004


Its planned for NetworkManager to support static IP addresses at some
stage of its development.  Just not now.

Dan

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:31 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:45:57 -0400, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> static addressing,
> > If you want to do that, you just don't use NetworkManager.
> 
> What's the target audience and usage scenario for NetworkManager again?
> There are real world intranets that don't use dhcp, where desktops are assigned
> a static ip, and where linux, while not officially supported by the
> helpdesk or it, is tolerated.
> If NetworkManager is there to make connectivity drop-dead easy to
> setup and manage, static addressing needs some level of support if you
> want to target end-users running systems inside a variety of intranets
> and not just home users sitting behind a cable modem router.  It's not
> so much a question of what a user wants to do... its a question of
> what the network-admins force a user to do, and making it as easy and
> painless as possible for an end-user trying to get a linux system up
> in running in a non-supportive environment.
> 
> -jef"sitting on a staticly addresses linux desktop on an intranet at
> the moment, and is desperately hoping that the configuration tools get
> good enough so that the 10 other people in the wing of the facility
> can FINALLY be able to install and configure their own boxes without
> ever having to bother me since the hinderdesk doesn't offer ANY
> support for linux even though the technical staff are all pretty much
> running at least one linux box, but I'm not bitter, not bitter at
> all"spaleta
> 
> 





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