[Cialug] RedHat ES 4 - static IP's?

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:53 -0600, David Champion wrote:
> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > Is NetworkManager installed on these systems?  That would certainly mess
> > things up...
> 
> Yes, it was. I've removed it.
> 
> For those of you, like me, that didn't know about this:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/
> 
> Sounds absolutely horrible to me. Hopefully it will go the way of 
> Linuxconf (see: my previous rants about "linuxconf is the evil spawn of 
> satan").

Don't knock NetworkManager - for laptops or other systems that move
about it absolutely rocks.  It make wireless "just work" (for the most
part - there are bits still in development).  It's completely useless
for a server and less useful for a fixed desktop.

Jeff

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