system-config-network & Zeroconf

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Thanks for the update. I've had some bad experiences with NM before,
but I like the idea behind it.


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