On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote:
> > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager?
>
> Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed
> me :-)
>
> I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly,
> sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1.
>
> eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane
> to inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed
> IP, internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose
> its address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is
> unplugged.
>
> Is it there a way to fix this?
>
> With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for
> a few minutes, then it switches back to wired.
>
> So I'm going to try wpa_gui...
>
> Cheers
> Francesco
An the winner is...
wicd.
The uptime was quite regular, so it came to my mind the DHCP client
demon.
It was the DHCP indeed, instead of automatic (that picks up dhclient) I
switched to dhcpcd and now works like a charm
Ciao
Francesco
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