Replace Network Manager with dhcpd on headless system - any issues?

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, 18:12 Chris Green, <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I have an xubuntu 21.10 system that is going to become headless.
>
> While I *could* leave Network Manager installed it seems to me that
> it's overkill as the system has only a single hard-wired ethernet
> interface, no WiFi.
>


What does it matter? What is the benefit of spending time making your
system non-standard?

Colin



> I have several Raspberry Pi systems which have just dhcpd on them so I
> know how to configure dhcpd for either static or dynamic IP.
>
> Is this just a matter of uninstalling Network Manager and installing
> dhcpd, then configuring dhcpd for the type of IP acquisition needed?
> Is anything else needed?
>
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