Configuring A Network Connection With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

NOTE: MDNS and .local Domain Names
The .local top level domain is treated as link-local domain by the resolver.
DNS requests are send as multicast DNS requests instead of normal DNS re-
quests. If you already use the .local domain in your nameserver configuration,
you must switch this option off in /etc/host.conf. Also read the host
.conf manual page.
If you want to switch off MDNS during installation, use nomdns=1 as a boot
parameter.
For more information on multicast DNS, see
.org.
17.4 Configuring a Network
There are many supported networking types on Linux. Most of them use different device
names and the configuration files are spread over several locations in the file system.
For a detailed overview of the aspects of manual network configuration, see
"Configuring a Network Connection Manually"
On SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, where NetworkManager is active by default, all
network cards are configured. If NetworkManager is not active, only the first interface
with link up (with a network cable connected) is automatically configured. Additional
hardware can be configured any time on the installed system. The following sections
describe the network configuration for all types of network connections supported by
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
TIP: IBM System z: Hotpluggable Network Cards
On IBM System z platforms, hotpluggable network cards are supported, but
not their automatic network integration via DHCP (as is the case on the PC).
After detection, manually configure the interface.
216 Administration Guide
Connection with YaST
http://www.multicastdns
(page 240).
Section 17.6,