2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <ftg@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

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