RE: RH net configuration GUI tool buggy?

["Doughty, Michael" <Doughty_Michael@example.com>]

Not to sound like a typical command line elitist, but I think you will be much
happier if you learn to do the configuration of your system via hand editing
of files.  Short of XF86Config, which I regard as impossible to do by hand [1],
this has always served me better.  The tools([n]curses or X) are frequently not 
uptodate with the version of whatever software they are supposed to configure.  
This leads to them using improper syntax, or old options, and even incorrect
files for the configuration.  The most notorious of these beasts is 
linuxconf, which is just happens to be one of the fastest ways to a 
broken system around.

Just my thoughts,

Michael

1.  This does not include minor tweaking of resolution, bit depth, mouse setup,
monitor refresh or the like.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [mailto:jean_christian@example.com]
Sent: 13”N7ŒŽ13“ú 10:11
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: RH net configuration GUI tool buggy?


On RH 7.1 I was trying to the Net Configuration GUI tool to set up my 
ethernet card. All the settings seemed to work except for the default 
gateway.

Under the routing tab I added a default gw ip address but a quick look at 
route's output showed that no gw had been installed. I added the gw using 
route and everything is fine now.

My question is this, had anyone else noticed this problem? Is this really a 
porblem or did I use the wrong GUI tool for the job?

Jc
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