NetworkManager

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Auer wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 13:44 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

>> > I tried selecting "manual configuration" and entering extra domains
>> Again, not only does Network Manager not do that, once you've
>> selected "manual configuration", afaik NM is no longer even managing that
>> connection.
> 
> Well, I can now tell you that it does continue to manage the connection,
> unless you enable the connection in the "manual configuration" dialogue.

OK - that's a matter of semantics - it seems to me that if you
don't "enable" it, you aren't really using manual configuration
(iirc, "enable" just toggles comment markers on the lines - so if you add a
bunch of settings in the manual configuration page, they're placed in the
file, but commented out unless you "enable" the interface)

> If you don't enable the connection, however, and just make changes on
> the DNS tab, then the changes you make are not only ignored, 

...because they're just comments...

> they are 
> reset to whatever NetworkManager thinks they should be. 

It's NOT NetworkManager.  It's dhclient.  NM has nothing to do with your
DHCP settings, it _only_ triggers the execution of dhclient.
-- 
derek