default route problem

2008-10-06 Thread Vitja Makarov
Hi, all! Home ISP often use the following network configuration scheme: - Lan IP address is assigned using DHCP - PPTP is used for internet connection If pptp server is in your network, that should be ok to replace default route with ppp one, but when pptp server is routed via DHCP provided

forcing 802.11a

2008-10-06 Thread Patrick Lepore
at my office, the wireless connection has the same SSID for a,b and g networking. Network manager keeps connecting to the wireless-g connection but I'd like to force to to connect to wireless-a due to some interference issues. Is there a way to specify that in network-manager? - Pat

Re: knetworkmanager stopped working

2008-10-06 Thread Anton Moiseev
When I start nm-applet from console, I receive the following error message: ** (nm-applet:8134): WARNING **: WARN applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service as it is already taken. Return: 3 (nm-applet:8134): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL

Re: default route problem

2008-10-06 Thread Stuart Ward
Am I missing something obvious, but shouldn't the DHCP server provide the default route to the client. eg my dhcpd.conf subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 192.168.0.4; range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.50; option netbios-name-servers 192.168.0.2;

Re: default route problem

2008-10-06 Thread Vitja Makarov
DHCP provides default route, but when you bring pptp up, you may want to use ppp device as default route, e.g internet. Then if you'll replace default one with ppp, then you will loose route to pptp server. 2008/10/6 Stuart Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am I missing something obvious, but shouldn't

Re: default route problem

2008-10-06 Thread Stuart Ward
Ahh of course, and the same is true for vpn's so is what you are doing where the connection is flagged as a becoming a default route, save the current default route on establishment and replace the default route with the saved one when the connection comes down. but this would fail if the

RE: default route problem

2008-10-06 Thread Trey Nolen
On this same topic, Network Manager also removes any NON default routes that you have. I personally sometimes set different routes up for the internal network. These are NOT given out by DHCP, but when you connect/disconnect a VPN, those routes are blown away. I would LOVE for this to be

[PATCH] IFUPDOWN wep-tx-keyidx support

2008-10-06 Thread Alexander Sack
Implement support for wep-tx-keyidx in ifupdown system config plugin. === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- a/ChangeLog 2008-10-03 02:25:06 + +++ b/ChangeLog 2008-10-03 21:51:57 + @@ -1,8 +1,22 @@ +2008-10-02 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + Implement support for wep-tx-keyidx

[PATCH] IFUPDOWN - hostname read/write support

2008-10-06 Thread Alexander Sack
Implement system hostname support for debian/ubuntu Make nm-inotify-helper from ifcfg-fedora plugin usable for other plugins too === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- a/ChangeLog 2008-10-03 21:51:57 + +++ b/ChangeLog 2008-10-06 08:22:23 + @@ -1,8 +1,36 @@ +2008-10-03 Alexander Sack [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] IFUPDOWN - hostname read/write support

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Alexander Sack wrote: Implement system hostname support for debian/ubuntu Will this automatically overwrite /etc/hostname, if you receive a hostname from dhcp? If so, this would be a bad idea imho. If it would only be a D-Bus interface to *configure* the hostname when explicitely requested by

Re: NetworkManager-list Digest, Vol 49, Issue 2

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 17:42 -0400, Dustin Howett wrote: Done so, networkmanager reconnected, and my hostname got reset to localhost.localdomain. Was your hostname 'localhost.localdomain' before the 'killall' ? When it starts up, the system settings service will grab the current hostname and

Re: PPP Setting doesn't seem to stick

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 21:29 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: When I modify the setting Send PPP Echo Packets of my CDMA connection it doesn't seem to stick. Is anyone seeing that setting stick, I wonder if I am having a profile issue or if this is an actual bug. Could well be a bug; there could

Re: [PATCH] Fix crash of nm-system-settings in add_default_dhcp_connection

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 04:55 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: Fix crash of nm-system-settings in add_default_dhcp_connection when wired device gets removed. * system-settings/src/main.c: - (add_default_dhcp_connection,device_removed_cb):

Re: [PATCH] IFUPDOWN - hostname read/write support

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:38 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Implement system hostname support for debian/ubuntu Will this automatically overwrite /etc/hostname, if you receive a hostname from dhcp? No. It is persistent user-specified hostname storage. If it would

Re: [PATCH] IFUPDOWN wep-tx-keyidx support

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:25 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: Implement support for wep-tx-keyidx in ifupdown system config plugin. Thanks, r4148. dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

Re: default route problem

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:51 +0400, Vitja Makarov wrote: Hi, all! Home ISP often use the following network configuration scheme: - Lan IP address is assigned using DHCP - PPTP is used for internet connection If pptp server is in your network, that should be ok to replace default route

Re: forcing 802.11a

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 14:25 -0400, Patrick Lepore wrote: at my office, the wireless connection has the same SSID for a,b and g networking. Network manager keeps connecting to the wireless-g connection but I'd like to force to to connect to wireless-a due to some interference issues. Is there

Re: Which AP is chosen when several are found for the same SSID?

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Gamari (FOSS)
Dan Williams wrote: NM 0.6 doesn't have the capability to lock to a particular AP. NM 0.7 has the capability, but is still subject to driver behavior. Give NM 0.7 a shot and let us know if locking to your AP's BSSID works. Dan I can attest to the fact that something in the stack is really

Re: [PATCH] IFUPDOWN - hostname read/write support

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:27 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: Implement system hostname support for debian/ubuntu Make nm-inotify-helper from ifcfg-fedora plugin usable for other plugins too r4150 and r4151, thanks! (broke the inotify helper move into a separate commit) Dan