Problem setting up wired networking

[Steve Thompson]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:36 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> So NetworkManager now knows how to set the hostname properly?
>
> Now that all depends on your definition of properly.  There are cases
> where changing the hostname of a running system will break other running
> software.  It's not a perfect world, neither option is that great.

Point taken. However, I have been setting hostnames via DHCP for years 
(both Fedora and CentOS on over 300 machines), and have never had anything 
break because of it (not one single breakage of any kind). I've also tried 
NM a few times (maybe 10 times) and have never had it work "properly" even 
once. When deploying a large number of equivalent machines (more than 
two), it is simply not acceptable for there to be a need for the system 
image to contain the hostname _anywhere_, as seems to be currently 
required by NM.

Steve