Re: Resilient network configuration

2019-04-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/2/19 2:43 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: I just tried it and it worked. I was able to add a static address to my wifi connection while keeping the dhcp one. "nm-connection-editor" has to be run from the command line, there is no icon for it. The Gnome connection editor doesn't s

Re: Resilient network configuration

2019-04-02 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: > I just tried it and it worked. I was able to add a static address to > my wifi connection while keeping the dhcp one. > "nm-connection-editor" has to be run from the command line, there is > no icon for it. The Gnome connection editor doesn't support doing > this. Perhaps t

Re: Resilient network configuration

2019-04-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/2/19 1:40 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: I wrote: For a primary interface with a static address, I may be able to add the information as IPADDR2 (etc) in ifcfg-eth0. But how do I do this if the primary interface gets its address via DHCP? Samuel Sieb answered: Install "nm-connection-editor". It

Re: Resilient network configuration

2019-04-02 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > For a primary interface with a static address, I may be able to add > the information as IPADDR2 (etc) in ifcfg-eth0. But how do I do this > if the primary interface gets its address via DHCP? Samuel Sieb answered: > Install "nm-connection-editor". It gives you a lot more > capabilit

Re: Resilient network configuration

2019-04-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/2/19 12:24 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: For a primary interface with a static address, I may be able to add the information as IPADDR2 (etc) in ifcfg-eth0. But how do I do this if the primary interface gets its address via DHCP? Install "nm-connection-editor". It gives you a lot more capabilitie

Resilient network configuration

2019-04-02 Thread CLOSE Dave
On every version of Fedora in the last ten years or so, the basic network configuration is stored in files under /etc/sysconfig. When the machine boots or I run "systemctl restart network" (or "service network restart"), those files determine how the network gets set-up. After that, I can change th