On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:35:48PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On my rawhide box (static IP) I found NM on and NMDispatcher off was the > > best. > > What exactly are the functions of these two services? > I've always assumed NM required NMDispatcher, > and I didn't understand why NM didn't start the Dispatcher itself. > > It's annoying the name NetworkManagerDispatcher is so long, too. NetworkManagerDispatcher runs scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d when interfaces go up and down. See 'man NetworkManagerDispatcher' for details. If NM is off, I doubt if NMDispatcher does anything at all. I don't think NM supports static IP in F8. I don't know if it does in rawhide or not, but I know that is a planned feature. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
