[KLUG Advocacy] New SuSe User

Adam Tauno Williams advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Sun, 30 May 2004 09:16:50 -0400


On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:22, John Bridleman wrote:
> * Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
> > Is there a network interface control app/applet in SuSe like RH's
> > network configuration.  I move between networks alot and up/down
> > interfaces,  'network configuration' was handy.  I don't see an obvious
> > candidate.
> Have you found anything yet? I run into the same problem with moving between networks.

Unfortunately not.

> Also, I see where I can ifup and ifdown but there doesn't seem to be a 'service network restart' or even /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart.

Yea, how this stuff is handled seems strange (those Germans!).

It also doesn't always rewrite /etc/resolv.conf when I use ifdown/ifup. 
Which is annoying.