Hi,
I use the network profiles, too with several interfaces and DNS config
changing.
For configuring, profiles, I use Systems Preferences -> Network.
Here is a trip. For my eth0 (wired ethernet), well I don't use it.
I use only aliases such as eth0_home, eth0_work1, eth0_work2 (one alias for
one profile).
I don't use any 'copy' for profile or devices.
For changing profiles, I use Systems Tools -> Network control...
Be sure to :
1. First activate the right profile (and not the aliased interface
you are interesting in)
2. That you allow users to activate each aliased interface.
But this is not enough you have route modification ('root' password will be
asked)..
I hope it will help you.
BTW, I use FC2.
Sincerely yours, Mathieu.
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Timothy Murphy [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Envoyé : dimanche 17 octobre 2004 15:13
> À : fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: Anyone using network profiles?
>
>
> Markus Huber wrote:
>
> >> In any case, my question was:
> >> Is anyone actually using the Network Device Control tool found in
> >> Start=>System Tools.
> >
> > Yes. On two boxes. On one for pppoe, and on the other one for LAN.
> >
> > Is this a survey?
>
> No, it's just that I cannot get it to work properly on my
> machine, and it seemed from a question I sent that very few
> people are using it, even though it appears on the face of it
> an ideal tool if one wants to use a laptop in different locations.
>
> But if you (or anybody else) are using it,
> I would be very grateful if you could tell me
> what Profiles and Logical Devices you use.
>
> Also, do you have to run "service network restart" or equivalent
> when booting?
>
> My setup is as follows:
> I have 2 Profiles, for home (Common) and college (TCD)
> I have 2 logical devices, both attached to the physical
> device eth0, which is a WiFi PCMCIA card. I call the devices
> eth0_home and eth0_college.
>
> So I want to turn off eth0_college in the Common profile,
> and I want to turn off eth0_home in the TCD profile.
>
> For some reason, when I turn eth0_home off or on in one
> profile it is also turned off or on in the other. But I have
> no problem turning eth0_college off or on.
>
> I take it the reason for this is that eth0_home
> is the logical device that was already present,
> while eth0_college is a copy.
> So is one required to use only copies of logical devices in
> profiles? The documentation does not seem to suggest this.
>
> Also, as I said, I have to restart the network now whenever I
> reboot, even though I stated that I wanted the Common profile
> to be activated when booting. (My suspicion is that the
> ifcfg_eth0 file is copied to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> after the point where the device would be activated. But that
> is only an uneducated guess.)
>
> People have suggested I contact the Fedora-test list,
> but I don't think this is really an issue with the test
> distributions. It is probably a misunderstanding on my part
> of how to set profiles up..
>
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