Probably stupid question, but

[Colin Law]

On 3 September 2013 15:31, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
> On 2013-08-28 14:38, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On 28 August 2013 02:44, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Insanity is in the eye of the beer holder, and to me, its
>>> Network-Smangler
>>> that is the insane software here.
>>
>>
>> Again, it is you, Gene.
>>
>> Or, more specifically, it is your home network configuration.
>>
>> Again, as I have said before, you are doing weird nonstandard things
>> and expecting them to work and when they don't you blame the software.
>>
>> Turn on DHCP like every other sane client network in the world these
>> days and it will just work. You broke it because you broke your
>> network. The software is fine.
>>
>> *You* have created these problems because you have disabled DHCP, as
>> you have told us, and thus created a nonstandard network. *It* is what
>> is broken, not Ubuntu.
>
>
> I'm on Gene's side with this one, I have to admit.
>
> The thing is called NetworkManager, not DHCP Manager. So it should work with
> all network types, including static IP addresses.
>
> And it should definately be intelligent enough to understand that if someone
> has defined a static ip address for their machine, it should not just
> blindly ignore it and go for DHCP. Maybe it could check first to see if DHCP
> is available. Maybe it can still do its thing but in such a way that the
> static IP address is kept as it was. I don't care what it does, as long as
> it does not break network connectivity. And currently, (or at least last
> time I checked), it does.

I can't understand what is the problem that others seem to have with
fixed ip addresses in network manager.  I use fixed IP addresses
simply by setting the Method to Manual in IPv4 Settings in NM and
entering the address etc.  I have no problems at all with this.

Colin