Re: Confessions of a secret NM user

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 18:20 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> >> Is anyone successfully using the network service + system-config-network
> >> with Fedora-8 (updated)?
> >> 
> >> To be more precise, has anyone found themselves NOT connected with WiFi,
> >> and found the problem solved by running system-config-network?
> > 
> > Yes.  Easily 95% of my systems are hard-wired and use system-config-
> > network (well, make that "service network start").  They're all using
> > fixed IPs, though.
> 
> I don't think "service network restart" and "system-config-network"
> are by any means equivalent.
> In my experience, one may well work when the other doesn't.
> It's a complete gamble, in my experience.
> 
These two things are somewhat unrelated. service network restart
starts the network service which in general should not be running if is
NM is running.

system-config-network is a program to configure network files and
activate them.


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