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

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Did removing network manager solve the problem?

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 13:18, David Champion wrote:
> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I can see that... but it shouldn't be enabled by default on RedHat ES. 
> It was pre-installed on the server by Dell.
> 
> Mandriva also has a nice app like that that lets you manage multiple 
> network profiles, and one called drakroam for configuring wireless. But 
> they're very unobtrusive - they only run when you tell them to.
> 
> My reference to Linuxconf was because NetworkManager was apparantly 
> doing things in the background, even though I didn't tell it to.
> 
> I'm thinking about just wiping them an doing a more limited install from 
> scratch that's more suited for a server environment. They do a 
> "everything AND the kitchen sink" install.
> 
> -dc
> 
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