NetworkManager

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:19 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Now, apart from the very frustrating experience, is this intended
> > behavior? If so, does it really have to be this way?
> >
> Yes its intended behaviour.  Networkmanager at the moment works with dhcp
> only   its intended  more for laptops where you will be using many
> different networks.  it makes it easy to change.  and different networks
> have different requirements.  one thing that would be a nice addon.  is if
> the dhcp server gives out a proxy server it setsup  iptables rules to
> forward all traffic to port 80 and 21 to the proxy server.  so you never
> need to configure browsers, etc

It does work with any static IP address you have configured with
system-config-network.  It will apply the IP & DNS configuration you've
selected using system-config-network Profiles on startup.  NM blows away
your /etc/resolv.conf because it uses a local caching nameserver to deal
with horrible glibc resolver dropouts when network switches occur.
That's not likely to change, what may change would be the ability to add
custom entries to the caching nameserver's config.

Dan