Problem setting up wired networking

[Steve Thompson]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> On Friday 14 November 2008 13:12:52 Steve Thompson wrote:
>
>> A problem is that for the very simplest of configurations (a system with
>> one single hardwired interface that doesn't roam), NM does not work. At
>> all. I have a humble collection of about 30 Fedora machines in my
>> business; four of them are F9 and the rest are earlier versions. I have no
>> Linux laptops at all; nearly all of the several hundred boxes that I have
>> managed are of this simple configuration. NM does not work in this
>> situation; the hostname never gets set.
>
> I've probably misunderstood completely,
> but doesn't it get the hostname from /etc/sysconfig/network ?

Yes, it does, if the hostname is set there. But the point is that it is 
not acceptable to have to set it there. If I am configuring a whole bunch 
of similar machines, I want /etc/sysconfig/network to be identical on all 
of them. Imagine the situation where I am installing a set of virtual 
machines: I build it once, and then clone the image. If the image contains 
any information that identifies the machine, it's now wrong for all of the 
clones.

Steve