Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 154803
system-config-network "caches" old network connections
Last modified: 2008-05-06 20:08:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: If I create a DHCP "network connection" in system-config-network, activate it, de-activate it and then delete it, and recreate the network connection as a static connection, when I activate it, it's still a dynamic connection! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.22-1 system-config-network-tui-1.3.22-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run system-config-network and create a DHCP "ethernet network connection" 2. activate the connection 3. de-activate the connection 4. delete the connection 5. re-create the connection but specify a static IP address. 6. re-activate the connection 7. Run "ifconfig" and you'll see that the static IP address has *not* been used - you're still running DHCP. Additional info: Frankly, system-config-network is horrid IMHO. Problems (apart from the really annoying one just described): 1. It uses hard links (which I'm sure are part of the problem above). What is wrong with soft links? 2. It doesn't allow full network control from the command-line (very bad for "power users"). 3. It doesn't handle different "profiles" very well at all (very annoying if you change between lots of networks all the time). 4. If you've got an existing DHCP network connection, you cannot change it to be a static connection, and yet you *can* change a static connection and make it dynamic. 5. It's very sloooooooooow. 6. It doesn't show you what commands it is running under the covers. If it could be made a bit more like QuickSwitch (http://muthanna.com/quickswitch), that would be brilliant.
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