Bug 181622

Summary:	Handle profiles in NetworkManager
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Magnus Boman <mboman>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Tambet Ingo <tambet>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke, quentin.jackson, suse-beta
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Magnus Boman 2006-06-04 23:33:27 UTC

NetworkManager should be able to handle profiles. Profiles should contain the following functionality;

1. Static IP address, netmask, default route, DNS
2. Profile scripts. Depending on which profile, it should go to a script directory and execute them (same as with the dispatcher.d, but with unique scripts for each profile)
3. Network Interface priority (ie use eth0 when available, ath0 only when eth0 is not avilable etc)
4. Set speed (100mb/hd, 100mb/fd etc)

A profile should be chosen;
1. Should be able to have a default profile
2. If AP xyz can be seen, use profile abc
3. If dhcp address subnet/dns server/domain search, then use profile 123

I realize that it's way to late for SLED10

Comment 1 Quentin Jackson 2006-06-27 04:05:11 UTC

To back this up (an excerpt from my post at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=134241)

<snip> Guys upon further thought it would seem the whole purpose of network manager is to enable painless roaming between networks.  I don't think there is too much point in using it on a workstation that never moves.  Therefore when roaming between networks (be they customers, home/work or whatever) it is often the case that the end user using network manager has no control over whether they are allocated static or dynamic addresses from those networks.  For this reason I feel that we need to re-look at whether network manager should allow for entering a static ip associated with a particular access point or network. 
Without this feature anyone who needs to allow for a static IP may have an
unsatisfactory setup requiring manual configuration each time they move.<snip>

Additionally it would be very nice to have a checkbox to disable the password prompt to get to the key manager.  I've already logged in to the system at boot once and proven whom I am, so why should I have to do it again?

Comment 2 Magnus Boman 2007-03-05 07:30:24 UTC

Tambet, any chance we can look at this for 10.3?

Comment 3 Quentin Jackson 2007-03-05 07:41:11 UTC

Would also be very useful if it handled proxy servers, it's a real pain roaming between different networks when you use rss readers etc.

Comment 4 Magnus Boman 2007-04-10 10:31:35 UTC

No interest, closing...

Comment 5 Quentin Jackson 2007-04-10 19:58:34 UTC

Do we really have to close this?  Just because there's been no comment for a while, perhaps it should be added upstream.