Confessions of a secret NM user
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 30 21:43:24 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 18:20 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> >> Is anyone successfully using the network service + system-config-network
> >> with Fedora-8 (updated)?
> >>
> >> To be more precise, has anyone found themselves NOT connected with WiFi,
> >> and found the problem solved by running system-config-network?
> >
> > Yes. Easily 95% of my systems are hard-wired and use system-config-
> > network (well, make that "service network start"). They're all using
> > fixed IPs, though.
>
> I don't think "service network restart" and "system-config-network"
> are by any means equivalent.
> In my experience, one may well work when the other doesn't.
> It's a complete gamble, in my experience.
>
These two things are somewhat unrelated. service network restart
starts the network service which in general should not be running if is
NM is running.
system-config-network is a program to configure network files and
activate them.
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