system-config-network & Zeroconf

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:25 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >  >  Well, eventually the connection editor could potentially replace the GUI
> >  >  functionality of s-c-n and ifup/ifdown could be pointed at NM, but we're
> >  >  not there yet.  There's a few more device types that NM would need to
> >  >  support (mainly PPPoE/PPPoATM connections, good ISDN, etc) before we
> >  >  could think about replacing anything.  They are going to be parallel but
> >  >  mutually exclusive for the time being.  Also there will be some people
> >  >  who won't ever want to use NM for some setups even though NM could work
> >  >  for them; but that's fine.
> >
> >  Are those people...looking at using zeroconf. I get the reasoning for
> >  avoiding NM in a more controlled networking situation... but zeroconf
> >  seems like NM's bread and butter to me... but what the hell do i know.
> >
> >  -jef
> 
> 
> How about static IPs and multiple concurrent networks? I couldn't get
> either to work with network manager in F8

A single static IP per interface works pretty well if you use the NM in
updates-testing (svn3370) and have set it up to use static IP in
system-config-network.  Multiple IPs per interface will come eventually.
It'll even work before login.

Multiple concurrent networks are what I'm working on right now; pretty
good progress here and I hope to land something in the next week or so
in F9, and when it's pretty solid it will also show up in F8.

Dan