Fedora 9 Preview issues

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Mon Apr 21 17:36:29 UTC 2008


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:25:09PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 13:16 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:45:02PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Mark any devices that you do not want to control with NetworkManager
> > > with NM_CONTROLLED=no in the ifcfg file for that device.  Of course that
> > > makes the device unmanaged by NM, and therefore it will never be your
> > > default route, but it might work for you if you want to keep using NM.
> > 
> > How does NM choose the device to use for the default route?  I had a 
> > problem with NM choosing the device that has NO default route over the 
> > one that has a default route.
> 
> Latest activated wired device, then wireless, then GSM/CDMA.  AutoIPv4
> devices never get the default route.  Do you by chance have a device
> that's not really connected to anything?

I have a device that's connected to a network with DHCP but that 
doesn't connect to the world.  Is that so strange?  It happens to use 
RFC1918 addressing, and no default "routers" options is sent by the 
DHCP server.




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