On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 18:21 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > I must be confused. AFAIK, I'm not running the dhcp daemon. My laptop is > running NetworkManager and is asking for an IP address from the wireless > router at home. This works fine. The problem is when I go to work and > plug in the ethernet cable and boot up the laptop. Now nm-applet has a > button for a wired connection (it did this in Fedora 6 but until today > it hasn't done this in Fedora 8). The problem is that it is requesting a > dhcp type wired connection when I need to use a static IP (which I've > configured previously via system-config-network). How do I get the > static IP address using Network Manager/nm-applet given the dhcp daemon > is not running? (I have no dhcpd.config because the daemon has not been > started. AFAIK, there is no reason for my laptop to be providing dhcp > connections.) You can set defaults for your DHCP client, which can be overridden when there actually is a DHCP server on the LAN. man dhclient and dhclient.conf -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
