Network Icon

[Oliver Sampson]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:26 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:22 +0200, Oliver Sampson wrote:
> > I wanted to change my network card from DHCP to a static IP on my
> > Fedora 9 box. So I did. The network icon (in Gnome) then shows up with
> > an [x] saying the connection is broken. I then changed the DHCP server
> > so that the systme would return a static IP address when queried, yet
> > the network icon still shows up with an [x], despite the fact that the
> > network still works.
> 
> Decide on which method you want to assign static IPs, here's two
> simplified explanations:
> 
> a. Set your client to have a fixed IP, and pay no attention to a DHCP
> server on the network.
> 
> b. Set your client to be configured by your DHCP server, and configure
> the DHCP server to always give the client the same IP.

Right. I have. I've selected method b. And it works (as clumsily
described above!) Except for that Gnome Network Icon part.

Thanks,
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