Network setup

[Crispin Wellington]

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

Why don't you just buy your mother a Mac?

Regards

Crispin

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Thiago Farina <tfransosi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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?
>
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