upgrade to rawhide report

Florian La Roche laroche at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 06:56:36 UTC 2004


> What NetworkManager does, in essence, is that if you have a wired
> ethernet link it dhcp's it, and if you don't it lets you choose a
> wireless essid from any that are available, and also specify the
> encryption key etc., then dhcp's that. It could be extended to let you
> provide a static IP config in a similar way to the wireless info.
> If you plug/unplug the network cable then NetworkManager dynamically
> moves between wired and wireless. Hopefully I got that right, I'm sure
> Dan will correct me if not.

This could also be combined with system-config-network or should this really
go in a separate application?

greetings,

Florian La Roche





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