RHEL6 Network Manager for Work/Home

Grzegorz Witkowski geslinux at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 01:27:37 UTC 2012


http://mydataexchange.net/netmgr/
Check this out...
On Aug 14, 2012 10:08 p.m., "S. Edouard Jr" <ablenetech at gmail.com> wrote:

> go to /usr/bin/setup.  Create a subdevice under eth0. Network
> config->device config->New Device->ethernet->ETH0:0-> Fill in the
> information. Now the main device connect under work settings and the
> subdevice under the main device connect to home info..
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
> > Paul Whitney wrote:
> > > On Aug 14, 2012, at 03:12 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> > > Harry Hoffman wrote (top posting while reading the request to not top
> > > post):
> > >> Then Network Manager can't (currently) handle it.
> > >>
> > >> On 08/14/2012 02:17 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> > >>> Martini, Dave wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> The laptop is setup with a static IP address at work which is
> > >>>> configured onto the laptop itself.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is it a 192.168 address at work? If not, you are going to have to
> tell
> > >>> it to use DHCP.
> > >>>
> > >>> And please don't top post.
> > >
> > > Then
> > > $ service NetworkManager stop
> > > $ vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> > > BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> > > # IPADDR=whatsit
> > > :wq
> > > $ service network restart
> > >
> > > As root (#).  I only say this because your prompt looks like regular
> user
> > > ($).  Some companies that issue laptops typically do not give up the
> > admin
> > > rights.  So he may be SOL unless he decides to reconfigure his router
> at
> > > home to dole out IP addresses similar to the one he has at work...
> >
> > Dunno. My prompts, whether as myself, root, or sudo, all are
> > user at server:dir >
> >
> > But someone who's got a Linux laptop, I'd expect to have some rights, at
> > least sudo. And he *ought* to have discussed this with his managers, who
> > you would think would be able to handle that issue.
> >
> >       mark
> >
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