<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Oliver Grawert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">hi,<br>
<span class="">Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 21:02 -0200 schrieb Thiago Farina:<br>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:19 PM, W Scott Lockwood III<br>
> <<a href="mailto:vladinator@gmail.com">vladinator@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On 1/4/2016 4:16 PM, Thiago Farina wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Hi,<br>
> >><br>
> >> Is this the right mailing list to post about network issues?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > It can be. Go ahead and post your question to the list. :-)<br>
> ><br>
> OK. It is more like a suggestion.<br>
><br>
> On Mac OS X [1] one can do the following to set a static ip for a<br>
> network device:<br>
><br>
> $ sudo networksetup -setmanual Ethernet [ipaddress] [subnet] [router]<br>
><br>
> On Ubuntu (I'm on 12.04) you have to disable dnsmasq on NetworkManager<br>
> (and this can break your dns resolution in the process), edit<br>
> /etc/network/interfaces, restart the network-manager service and hope<br>
> for the best. And in the end you give up the command line and end up<br>
> doing this through the UI.<br>
><br>
> Why does Ubuntu not invest in making an administration tool like<br>
> networksetup for its users?<br>
<br>
</span>sounds like you look for nmcli ;)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can't tell to my mother, "hey, running the following command":<br></div><div><br></div><div>$ nmcli connection add type ethernet con-name connection-name ifname interface-name ip4 address gw4 address</div><div><br></div><div>This is just nonsense!<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>That is why Linux is not for mainstream.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm just trying to tell you guys to pay more attention to the design of the system.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe Ubuntu is not responsible for that part of the system? Or just don't care?</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Thiago Farina</div>
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