RHEL6 Network Manager for Work/Home

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Dave,

Martini, Dave wrote:
> I have a RHEL6 laptop at work with a static IP  address.
> I want to take this laptop home to connect to  my wired network at home.
> My provider users DHCP at home.
> Do I need to do anything to configure the network connection when I plug
> in my cable to my laptop at home or will it recognize
> automatically that it's a DHCP connection?
> In my Network Manager applet in my Gnome panel I did define a 2nd. Wired
> connection called home that is set to DHCP.
> Thank you.

You say it has a static IP at work: is that configured onto the laptop
itself, or is it actually assigned a given IP, via MAC address, by DHCP
(which we do at work).

       mark