system-config-network & Zeroconf

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 16:32 -0500, Sunil Ghai wrote:
> I don't use NM. I was discussing with my friend about Zeroconf today.
> He uses Ubuntu and told me that there is an option in NM (0.6.4) to
> use Zeroconf network. Just booted the Ubuntu live CD and it was
> actually "IPv4 Link-Local Addressing" option..

That's not in NetworkManager's upstream, that appears to be a custom
Ubuntu addition like their Roaming vs. Managed mode stuff.  The user
shouldn't have to care about IPv4 LL addresses at all, the network
management software should handle all of that behind the scenes.

Dan


> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 16:08 -0500, Sunil Ghai wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Christopher Aillon
>         > <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
>         >         On 03/05/2008 03:08 PM, Sunil Ghai wrote:
>         >         > Hi,
>         >         >
>         >         > We currently don't have support for Zeroconf
>         networks in
>         >         > system-config-network as like we do have in GNOME
>         >         NetworkManager. Is there
>         >         > any work going on?
>         >
>         >
>         >         Am I the only one that finds asking for a "conf"
>         dialog for
>         >         "zeroconf"
>         >         funny?  :-)
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > So what is the point of having it in NM tab, to mention
>         whether the
>         > wired connection is DHCP type, static IP or Zeroconf?
>         
>         
>         Where did you find this?  I don't think NM (or the GNOME
>         applet) exposes
>         anything anywhere about zeroconf...
>         
>         dan
>         
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