Network setup

[Thiago Farina]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 21:02 -0200 schrieb Thiago Farina:
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:19 PM, W Scott Lockwood III
> > <vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 1/4/2016 4:16 PM, Thiago Farina wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Is this the right mailing list to post about network issues?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > It can be. Go ahead and post your question to the list. :-)
> > >
> > OK. It is more like a suggestion.
> >
> > On Mac OS X [1] one can do the following to set a static ip for a
> > network device:
> >
> > $ sudo networksetup -setmanual Ethernet [ipaddress] [subnet] [router]
> >
> > On Ubuntu (I'm on 12.04) you have to disable dnsmasq on NetworkManager
> > (and this can break your dns resolution in the process), edit
> > /etc/network/interfaces, restart the network-manager service and hope
> > for the best. And in the end you give up the command line and end up
> > doing this through the UI.
> >
> > Why does Ubuntu not invest in making an administration tool like
> > networksetup for its users?
>
> sounds like you look for nmcli ;)
>

I can't tell to my mother, "hey, running the following command":

$ nmcli connection add type ethernet con-name connection-name ifname
interface-name ip4 address gw4 address

This is just nonsense!

Compare that to "networksetup -setmanual Ethernet [ipaddre] [subnet]
[router]", which now I can remember from memory, you see that something is
wrong in the Linux land.

That is why Linux is not for mainstream.

I'm just trying to tell you guys to pay more attention to the design of the
system.

Maybe Ubuntu is not responsible for that part of the system? Or just don't
care?

-- 
Thiago Farina
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