<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On <b>Wed, 12/8/10, Janina Sajka <i><janina@rednote.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net><br>Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] jack-dssi-host<br>To: "S C Rigler" <riglersc@gmail.com><br>Cc: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU, "Len" <lenb_99@yahoo.com><br>Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 10:56 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">S C Rigler writes:<br>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Len <<a ymailto="mailto:lenb_99@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=lenb_99@yahoo.com">lenb_99@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but does anyone know how to keep Network<br>> > Manager from re-writing /etc/hosts on each reboot? The gui for dssi clients<br>> > (hexter,
fluidsynth-dssi, etc) will only appear if the hostname is<br>> > associated with localhost in /etc/hosts, but nm keeps modifying the file and<br>> > overwriting my changes<br>> <br>> <br>> Meant to reply all...<br>> <br>> Absolutely not off topic since this screws with just about everything audio<br>> related. I've tried blacklisting the ipv6 module and it helped somewhat but<br>> I believe audacity might not have been happy about it. Now I'm back to<br>> editing the hosts file every day.<br>> <br>I simply disable NM. It does nothing for me that I can't do much more<br>reliably.<br><br><br>As far as I can tell, NM exists to absolve the technically disinclined<br>from knowing anything about how connections are made. So, it can<br>discover new WAP options? Well, I don't need that--so I simply insure NM<br>isn't running in any runlevel. Haven't missed it yet.<br><br>Janina<br></div></blockquote>Yes,
so it seems that, while not enabled by default in previous versions of Fedora, in Fedora 13 NetworkManager replaces the former Network Administration Tool (system-config-network) while providing enhanced functionality (e.g., mobile broadband configuration). See fedora (13) project documentation, Chapter 5. Network Configuration.<br><div class="plainMail"><br>The simplest fix for the technically disinclined (or otherwise) is to disable the NetworkManager service and re-enable the old network service (which respects IPV6INIT=no).<br><br>Apparently, full support for IPv6 has been added to NetworkManager, whether you want it or not.<br><br>Len<br></div></td></tr></table><br>