system-config-network documentation?

Sur surdemir at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 15 17:31:20 UTC 2008


* Timothy Murphy wrote, On 03/15/2008 06:48 PM:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 
>> On 15/03/2008, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>>>  Is there documentation for system-config-network anywhere?
>>>
>> system-config-network is a gui that fiddles with the network parts of
>> initscripts. You probably want to read the docs in
>> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.60/ therefore, in particular
>> sysconfig.txt .
> 
> Thanks.
> While sysconfig.txt gives interesting information
> on possible Wireless options in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<if>
> it doesn't really say anything about how system-config-network works,
> or what one can enter when editing the various fields.
> 
> I was interested in the claim that someone had successfully renamed
> their interfaces to lan and wan.
> This seems to me to suggest that system-config-network
> must somehow interact with udev.

That guy is probably confused about nickname and interface(device) name.









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