Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.6-2 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I use network-manager-kde to connect to a private wireless LAN of mine. The wireless LAN uses a reserved network address space and its DHCP server is deliberately configured not to pass on a default gateway when assigning leases.
However, when using network-manager to connect to that WLAN, I can see a default gateway has been added to the routing table, its address being what you would expect: 192.168.x.254. This does not happen when connecting to that WLAN using ifupdown. When assigning a non-standard default gateway address ( e.g. 192.168.x.25 ) in the DHCP server's config, that default gateway will correctly be added to the routing table, though. network-manager should not second-guess the DHCP server not handing out an address for a default gateway. First of all, no such default gateway might exist in that network, or even worse, the default gateway might have a different address than x.y.z.254. In case of broken dhcp servers mistakenly not handing out default gateway addresses, network-manager GUIs could provide for an option that lets the user decide whether she wants to have a default gateway route added to the routing table or not. Regards, C. Dominik Bodi --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-hirsch-1 Debian Release: lenny/sid --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ===================================-+-=============== libc6 (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-12 libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.1-2 libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.71) | 0.76-1 libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.0) | 1.4.1-1 libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0) | 2.16.4-2 libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4) | 1.4-2 libhal1 (>= 0.5.8.1) | 0.5.11-2 libiw29 (>= 28+29pre7) | 29-1 libnl1 | 1.1-2 libnm-util0 | 0.6.6-2 iproute | 20080417-1 dhcdbd (>= 1.12-2) | 3.0-4 lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) | 3.2-15 wpasupplicant (>= 0.4.8) | 0.6.4~git20080716.93ef879-1 dbus (>= 0.60) | 1.2.1-2 hal (>= 0.5.7.1) | 0.5.11-2 ifupdown | 0.6.8+nmu1 adduser | 3.108 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
