[Cialug] RedHat ES 4 - static IP's?

[David Champion]

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:53 -0600, David Champion wrote:
>> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>>> Is NetworkManager installed on these systems?  That would certainly mess
>>> things up...
>> Yes, it was. I've removed it.
>>
>> For those of you, like me, that didn't know about this:
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/
>>
>> Sounds absolutely horrible to me. Hopefully it will go the way of 
>> Linuxconf (see: my previous rants about "linuxconf is the evil spawn of 
>> satan").
> 
> Don't knock NetworkManager - for laptops or other systems that move
> about it absolutely rocks.  It make wireless "just work" (for the most
> part - there are bits still in development).  It's completely useless
> for a server and less useful for a fixed desktop.

I can see that... but it shouldn't be enabled by default on RedHat ES. 
It was pre-installed on the server by Dell.

Mandriva also has a nice app like that that lets you manage multiple 
network profiles, and one called drakroam for configuring wireless. But 
they're very unobtrusive - they only run when you tell them to.

My reference to Linuxconf was because NetworkManager was apparantly 
doing things in the background, even though I didn't tell it to.

I'm thinking about just wiping them an doing a more limited install from 
scratch that's more suited for a server environment. They do a 
"everything AND the kitchen sink" install.

-dc