2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected]
