dhcp revisited...

[Derek Broughton]

JD wrote:

> I didn't want to physically remove avahi since it works fine at the office
> (unless I really have to).

No.  It doesn't do _anything_ at the office, unless you have an odd office
setup (like, perhaps, they're running a Mac-based network).
> 
> I also tried going through knetworkmanager to set this, but that util
> seems to be useless... it doesn't keep gateway or dns information, and,
> since I can't seem to save profile info, I've given up on that for now...

You'd really be better off asking on the kubuntu list.

> Or is it really better just to remove avahi altogether ?

KDE Menu / System Settings / Advanced tab / Services Manager

I've turned off the "DNS-SD services watcher" and "network status daemon"
without ill effect.
-- 
derek