[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

Sat Nov 24 21:38:48 CET 2012

2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>
+
+> On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, John Balcaen wrote:
+>
+>>
+>> Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to keyfile
+>> plugin.
+>>
+>>
+> OK, in the spirit of Anne's original question, can you tell us exactly
+> what the keyfile plugin is and does, and how to use it ? I'll volunteer to
+> do a fresh install and test it.
+>
+
+The keyfile plugin as said earlier is the default & native plugin to use
+with networkmanager [1]
+In order to introduce nm on distribution using ifcfg files (redhat/fedora)
+the ifcfg-rh plugin has been wrote to read & make nm able to use them (&
+avoid interferences between nm & the « old » scripts).
+So to use it you simply need to configure networkmanager by
+editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
+
+For example on my workstation i've got :
+cat NetworkManager.conf
+[main]
+plugins=keyfile
+dns=dnsmasq
+
+[keyfile]
+hostname=aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net
+
+it's mean that i'm using the keyfile plugin (read [1] or
+man NetworkManager.conf for more details) & ask nm to to also start dnsmasq
+for me.
+I also setup the hostname to set in nm in the keyfile section.
+
+There's also no need to do a « fresh » install to test/use it.
+
+
+[1] https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
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