Probably stupid question, but

[Ric Moore]

On 09/03/2013 10:31 AM, Patrick Asselman 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.

That's why I suggested wicd in place of NM. It seems to work friendlier 
with /etc/hosts. Ric



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