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<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ftg@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">ftg@roadrunner.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, John Balcaen wrote:<br>
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Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to keyfile plugin.<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>The keyfile plugin as said earlier is the default & native plugin to use with networkmanager [1]</div><div class="gmail_extra">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).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">So to use it you simply need to configure networkmanager by editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For example on my workstation i've got :</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">cat NetworkManager.conf </div><div class="gmail_extra">[main]</div><div class="gmail_extra">plugins=keyfile</div><div class="gmail_extra">dns=dnsmasq</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[keyfile]</div><div class="gmail_extra">hostname=<a href="http://aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net">aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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.</div><div class="gmail_extra">I also setup the hostname to set in nm in the keyfile section.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There's also no need to do a « fresh » install to test/use it. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
[1] <a href="https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings">https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Balcaen John<br>Jabber-id: <a href="mailto:mikala@jabber.littleboboy.net" target="_blank">mikala@jabber.littleboboy.net</a><br>
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