distro-independence of NetworkManager?

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:31:03 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> > anyone know the rationale for this patch?  It would be VERY nice to be
> > able to configure my wired connection for a static IP & switch btwn a
> > static wired & dynamic wireless connection...
> 
> afaik, NM doesn't work for static connections anyway.

Not exactly "static" configuration ( I used to use static config here but
I now have a router that does MAC matching ) .

I have all IPs matched to a particular interface MAC address, which does
the same thing effectively, and NM works with that. This means that my
laptop is "multihomed" with one address for eth0 and another for eth1
( the wireless card), so I have two names for the laptop to make life
easier - "name" for eth0  and "wifiname"  for eth1, for example.

Thus, for instance, scp filename wifiname:  works when connected by
wireless, and scp filename name:  works when wired .


Peter