* Dan Williams > I wouldn't get rid of "Automatic (Addresses only)" since this is what > enables you to ignore DNS servers/routes and use your own.
Actually, contrary to to what you'd intuitively expect, that method does *not* ignore receive routes. Only DNS servers are ignored. The only difference compared to the «Automatic» is ignore-auto-dns=true gets set. This is a very good example of what was getting at. Instead of having a separate "method" just to ignore received DNS server, this should have been a simple checkbox to override the default behaviour, in the same way privacy extensions already are. With the current arrangement, if you want to allow the user to ignore routes but not DNS servers, you'd need a third «Automatic (..)» flavour. If you want to allow to ignore both routes *and* DNS servers, you'll need a fourth. One "method" for each possible permutation of the settings simply won't scale. > Yeah, we've talked about that for a couple years but nobody's gotten > around to it. Note that you can currently use SLAAC in addition to > manual addresses already, though what you probably want is SLAAC to > deliver the prefix/DNS/etc and use a static IP with that prefix? That would be one possible use case. Note that I'm not really talking about a specific need of my own here, but rather to make it more flexible in general than it currently is. Tore _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
