Netapplet

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Oct 28 16:08:34 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 09:46 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:36 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Are you asking why a person might want to use 2 different static IP addresses?
> > They may have different static IP addresses in 2 different locations.
> > I do.
> > What is an "edge case"?
> > Why on earth would a system like this restrict you to a single IP address?
> > 
> > Anyone would think you were trying to solve Einstein's field equations.
> 
> Ok, I understood his question to be "at the same time" with two wireless
> cards, but I guess that's wrong?  Of course I understand the need to
> have different static IP addresses at different times, I don't dispute
> that at all...  NetworkManager right now does not support having
> multiple interfaces "active" at the same time, which is what I though
> Peter was referring to.  That's the edge case here (IMHO), not static
> IP.  Sorry if I misunderstood.

No, I meant at different times.  Sorry about any confusion on that one.

-- 
        Peter




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