Can't get NetworkManager to configure ntp

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Aaron Konstam writes:
>
>> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 04:19 +1030, Tim wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 08:38 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> > I thought a laptop is a machine you can move to different place and
>>> > therefore different networks.
>>> 
>>> Not everybody does that.  Some just use theirs around different spots on
>>> the same premises.
>>> 
>> You know sometimes we spend a lot of time denying the obvious. A laptop
>> is designed to move around. So if the OP found himself in a hotel in
>> another city with his laptop he would have to access a different
>> network. The case of moving the laptop around in the same network
>> certainly is possible but I would assume be a rare case and can be
>> removed from any general discussion.
>> 
>> Unless, of course, one is committed to argumentation.
>
> Yes, this is getting off the subject.  The real issue here is:

But it would be on-topic at networkmanager-list at gnome.org (subscribe at
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list).  And it would
be timely too.

>
> 1) NetworkManager does not implement a good chunk of the configuration
> functionality available via DHCP.  From what I can see, it ignores
> ntp-servers, domain-name, and host-name.  The only thing it does,
> apparently, is set the IP address, the subnet mask, the routing table, and
> generate /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> 2) Even though dhclient-script is perfectly capable of handling the
> remaining DHCP options that NetworkManager does not yet implement, it is
> prevented from doing so.  I cannot see any good reason for that.
>
> 3) None of the above is documented anywhere.  It would've saved me a great
> deal of trouble if some README somewhere simply told me: yes,
> NetworkManager does not implement X and Y.
>
> The only reason I haven't filed a bug in Bugzilla is because I'm really 
> only about 70% sure of the above, based on the snippets of code I looked 
> at so far, and I've hacked around this mess using 
> NetworkManagerDispatcher.  I don't like to file bugs in Bugzilla only to 
> get a NOTABUG (it's implemented, but you don't know the magic incantation
> for finding the documentation how to set it up).

At networkmanager-list, you could verify your conjectures, get comments 
from developers, and decide or get advice about filing a bug.


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 		Matthew Saltzman

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