Bug 977063

Summary:	New NetworkManager features should be documented
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Pete Travis <me>
Component:	networking-guide	Assignee:	Stephen Wadeley <swadeley>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Version:	devel	CC:	jhradile, swadeley
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Description Pete Travis 2013-06-23 05:42:36 UTC

NetworkManager now offers hotspot functionality, allowing users to easily share a non-wireless connection over a wireless interface.

As of F19, NetworkManager allows the creation and usage of both bridge and bond virtual devices.

These features should be documented in the System Administrator's guide.

--Pete

Comment 1 Jaromir Hradilek 2013-06-23 05:45:17 UTC

Thank you, Pete. Stephen, you might want to take a look at this feature request when you have a minute.

Comment 2 Pete Travis 2013-06-23 06:09:16 UTC

Hi Stephen, another quick observation for you.

There's a note reading:
"At the time of writing, NetworkManager does not detect IP aliases in ifcfg files. For example, if ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth0:1 files are present, NetworkManager creates two connections, which will cause confusion. "

I'm reasonably confident that NetworkManager now obeys address directives in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-devname. I *think* that .../ifcfg-devname:0 style aliases are not supported, but successfully ignored.

Comment 3 Stephen Wadeley 2014-03-21 08:03:09 UTC

Hello Pete

Re comment 0

1] "hotspot functionality"
We tried to document this before, here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537739

I will test again soon. I need to test a few other Wi-Fi things.


2] Bridge
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Networking_Guide/ch-Configure_Network_Bridging.html

I need to update the screenshot, the bridge priority was incorrect at 128, should be 32768. It is fixed in NetworkManager-0.9.9.1-4.git20140313.el7, which is in Rawhide already.

3] Bond
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Networking_Guide/ch-Configure_Network_Bonding.html

Re comment 2

This is now in the Reference Guide:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/System_Administrators_Reference_Guide/sect-networkscripts-interfaces.html#sect-networkscripts-interfaces-alias

I will ask someone to confirm that while reviewing that chapter.

Comment 4 Petr Bokoc 2019-11-07 15:30:15 UTC

I'm closing this bug as part of a Bugzilla cleanup effort. The most likely reason is that the bug has been opened either against a component we no longer publish, or against Release Notes for an EOL release.