Static Ip on Fedora 15

[jcf20010]

Can someone point me to directionsthat explain how to setup a static IP on Fedora 15?

I searched the forums but everything I have found and tried did not work or i was not able to do because things like the save button was not active.

[Keldorn]

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...nterfaces-eth0

[jpollard]

You forgot to mention that it only works if you are not using NetworkManager...

[DBelton]

??

I have been using static network address on every version of Fedora since F9, and I have used NetworkManager on all of those versions as well.

Static network addresses work just fine with NetworkManager.

[jpollard]

I haven't seen them work since F14 UNLESS you set them up using the Network Manager GUI, and even then it can get screwed up such that the GUI can't repair them. I gave up when NM started putting the default route on the wrong interface (I have two wired+3 VMs) and wouldn't fix it without disabling one of the interfaces.

Network manager doesn't use the ifcfg-xxx files anymore.

[DBelton]

I set mine up using the ifcfg files. I actually just copied them from previous version of Fedora when I did the install.

For example, here is one of my ifcfg files

NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
BOOTPROTO=none
DEVICE="p33p2"
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=6C:62:6D:7C:0C:31
TYPE=Ethernet
IPADDR0=192.168.1.20
PREFIX0=24
GATEWAY0=192.168.1.254
DNS1=192.168.1.254
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NAME="p33p2"

But then again, I make sure to specify which of mine is the default route.

Really the only issue I have had (and only with F17) is that udev keeps changing my device name. Like the adapter on install was p33p1, and now it is p33p2. It's happened on 3 different machines now.

[jpollard]

Mine just failed, and using the GUI to define the network only sort of worked - and no ifcfg files were created.

Since I was also having trouble with the VM networking (VMs couldn't see each other, even though they are all on the same network), I dropped NM, and started "network". The ifcfg files (with name changes) worked right off. In addition, my VMs could see each other.

and the default route was established correctly.

[stevea]

A/ F15 will be off support in 4 day. Upgrade now !

B/

Originally Posted by JP...

You forgot to mention that it only works if you are not using NetworkManager...

JP you forgot to mention that you are a whiney whiner who exaggerates every negative and ignores every positives of any Fedora issue - IOW a fedora-hater-troll. I say this despite the fact that you are knowledgeable and POTENTIALLY a great positive contributor to this forum - instead you choose to kvetch, kvetch kvetch instead of contributing.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

JP's constant stream of 'doesn't work' 'can't do' negative comments really has to be considered trollish.

I use dynamically assigned IPs. Yet I was able to right-click the NM icon, select wireless, IPv4 manual, edit connections, add the IP, mask, route, DNS "SAVE" and set the connection and BOOM - a static IP.

Originally Posted by jpollard

Mine just failed, and using the GUI to define the network only sort of worked - and no ifcfg files were created..

Well mine just succeeded and the contents are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Auto_`ESSID`

We've established that JP lacks the basic wherewithal to configure a wifi via NM.
Why are you posting your failures here JP ? It doesn't help the OP.
Why are you piggybacking your failures on threads where people are not hindered by your inabilities ?

If YOU, JP have a problem you want addressed start your own thread and ask for help.
If you are just here to detract from helping people - then why don't you ....
never mind.

[Doug G]

On this f15 laptop, I use and re-configure static IP with the Network Manager gui (from the nm icon 'edit connections') I haven't had any problems with setting up static IP's.

[jpollard]

Steve, I didn't need help. I googled and found that the fix was to disable network manager.

Tried that, succeeded. Doing so even fixed something I wasn't looking for.

Done.

And complaining about the messenger is just stupid. I call them as I see them.

Oh, and I don't have a wireless. And if you had bothered to read, I said that NM seems to work with wireless reasonably well.