Re: RHEL6 Network Manager for Work/Home

go to /usr/bin/setup.  Create a subdevice under eth0. Network
config->device config->New Device->ethernet->ETH0:0-> Fill in the
information. Now the main device connect under work settings and the
subdevice under the main device connect to home info..

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Paul Whitney wrote:
> > On Aug 14, 2012, at 03:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Harry Hoffman wrote (top posting while reading the request to not top
> > post):
> >> Then Network Manager can't (currently) handle it.
> >>
> >> On 08/14/2012 02:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>> Martini, Dave wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The laptop is setup with a static IP address at work which is
> >>>> configured onto the laptop itself.
> >>>
> >>> Is it a 192.168 address at work? If not, you are going to have to tell
> >>> it to use DHCP.
> >>>
> >>> And please don't top post.
> >
> > Then
> > $ service NetworkManager stop
> > $ vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> > BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> > # IPADDR=whatsit
> > :wq
> > $ service network restart
> >
> > As root (#).  I only say this because your prompt looks like regular user
> > ($).  Some companies that issue laptops typically do not give up the
> admin
> > rights.  So he may be SOL unless he decides to reconfigure his router at
> > home to dole out IP addresses similar to the one he has at work...
>
> Dunno. My prompts, whether as myself, root, or sudo, all are
> user@server:dir >
>
> But someone who's got a Linux laptop, I'd expect to have some rights, at
> least sudo. And he *ought* to have discussed this with his managers, who
> you would think would be able to handle that issue.
>
>       mark
>
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