PARTLY SOLVED Re: ethernet connections in Karmic - how do I tame network manager?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 01:40:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 21:01 +0000, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 20:45:19 Tom H wrote:
> > >> my point was that it is the DHCP daemon doing the
> > >> modifying. And it will keep doing so, regardless of NM. And that's
> > >> usually a good thing.
> > >
> > > Even if /etc/network/interfaces specifies static?
> > >
> > > Anyhow, that seems one way or another to have been overcome.
> > >  /etc/resolv.conf is maintaining the two DNS servers that I entered
> > > manually, and has stopped insisting that the gateway is the sole DNS
> > > server.
> >
> > I just saw that you have a static setup.
> >
> > I have seen (I have forgotten on which list) a case where NM was
> > trying to set up a dhcp configuration (hence the resolv.conf problem)
> > even though /e/n/i was configured for a static ip and the only
> > solution was to purge NM...
> 
> Thanks for that.  I had reluctantly come to the same conclusion, but was a 
> little nervous about what else I might muck up in the process.
> 
> I tried DHCP.  It was even worse. :-(
> 
> It is becoming obvious that NM, this computer and this site cannot happily 
> co-exist; and the site and computer are immovable and/or immutable, so NM it 
> is that has to go.
That was the conclusion reached on the Fedora list about 3 years ago.
It's a wonder that it still is the same ole stinker now, that is was
then. X{ Ric

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