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= Week 4 (Sept 22) - NetworkManager =
==Lecture==
===[http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ NetworkManager Project Web Site]===
===[http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/ Red Hat Article on NetworkManager]===
* Note that the repository for the NetworkManager source code has been moved from cvs to subversion (svn). Details can be found [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/developers/ here].
===NetworkManager===
** A service daemon that attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times.
** makes networking configuration and setup painless and automatics as possible.
* NetworkManagerDispatcher
* nm-tool - provides information about NetworkManager, device, and wireless networks.
[rchan@rh9 ~]$ nm-tool
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected
- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: Wired
Driver: r8169
State: connected
HW Address: 00:1B:38:12:E2:33
Capabilities:
Supported: yes
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s
Wired Settings
IP Settings:
IP Address: 192.168.0.200
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 192.168.0.255
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS: 192.168.0.1
- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: 802.11 Wireless
Driver: iwl4965
State: disconnected
HW Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Capabilities:
Supported: yes
Wireless Settings
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes
Wireless Access Points
* NetworkManager Administration
** Check the service daemon status
[root@fc9 ~]# service NetworkManager status
NetworkManager (pid 2239) is running...
** Stop the service daemon (Don't do this if you are connected to the system remotely. If you do, you will get cut off.)
[root@fc9 ~]# service NetworkManager Stop
Stopping NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]
** Start he service daemon
[root@fc9 ~]# service NetworkManager Start
Setting network parameters... [ OK ]
Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]
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