Re: Initial version of a SuSE backend

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:29:12PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Btw: NM seems to read the config files for static setups, but static
> > configurations are not supported until now, or do I miss something?
> 
> Correct, static configs have been supported for a while, but of course depend on 
> reading the system's config files since NM doesn't have a configuration applet 
> (which arguably it should not).  Therefore, the user uses the normal system 
> tools to configure static IP addresses, and NetworkManager picks those settings 
> up from the config files.  Backends should implement this functionality if they 
> wish to support static IP.

I mean, it reads the the device conf, gets a static ip, mask, gw from it,
use_dhcp is FALSE, but NM still gets the IP by DHCP regardless of the
settings read. That's the behavior I see. Does this already work for you?
Do I need to implement it or just fix it in my setup?

Kay