If I understood it correctly in Debian/Ubuntu network manager will leave additional interfaces defined in /etc/interfaces unmanaged.
So you can combine your "main" internet access managed by networkmanager (eth0, wlan0, ppp0 depending on where you are) with "additional" manual network setting you might need insided you machine (e.g. for various virtual machines you might be running) Did I understand that corrcectly? However, in OpenSUSE I cannot see how to achieve anything similar. As soon as network manager is enabled, ifup does not work any longer. >From what I see in the source code this is pretty unconditional: from /usr/src/packages/BUILD/sysconfig-0.74.5/scripts/ifup: (OpenSUSE 11.4) ---clip--- ###################################################################### # Check if NetworkManager is running, inform the user and exit # if [ "$NETWORKMANAGER" = yes ] && ! netcontrol_running ; then if [ "$SCRIPTNAME" != ifdown -a "$INTERFACE" != lo ] ; then mesg "Network interface is managed by the NetworkManager -> skipping" exit $R_NOTIMPL fi elif nm_running && [ "$INTERFACE" != lo ] ; then mesg "Network interface is managed by the NetworkManager -> skipping" exit $R_NOTIMPL fi --- clip --- Hopefully I'm just missing something here. Often it helps to know what one really wants to achieve, so here it goes: I need a bridge device for Xen. I let network manager take care of the internet access (this is a laptop) The straight forward approach putting the current "internet" interface chosen by network manager on the bridge would require to set the network address & routing to the bridge device instead of eth0/wlan0/ppp0. I don't think network manager can handle that. So my idea was to leave the bridge unmanaged from network manager, give it a static internal IP address and use ipforward together with NAT to connect the bridge with network manager's current "internet" interface. However, no it looks in OpenSUSE I cannot even run "ifup br0" when network manager is running. Regards, Uwe _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list