Probably stupid question, but

[Tom H]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.

I've used NM on various distributions with both static and dhcp
addresses without a hitch. NM won't fail straight after a default
installation. It may have done so in the distant past and is still
paying, reputationally, for those early problems.