On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 12:28:24PM -0800, Seeker wrote: > On 12/5/2016 12:00 PM, Seeker wrote: > > >
Thanks all for the replies. Looking at the options suggested, it looks like I have the following options: 1) systemd-networkd, it didn't provoke the vitriol I was half-expecting. 2) ifupdown -- this rings bells somewhere in the vaults of my memory, but I will need to do a bit of googling to remember / learn how to set it up. Isn't it a sysvinit thing though? Has it evolved comfortably into the new world of systemd? (to be clear I don't have a strong position on systemd vs sysvinit, but since Jessie the Debian default has migrated to systemd and in the absence of a strong opinion I have elected to go along with it) 3) NetworkManager -- not to start a flame war, but I've seen people on this list essentially equate NetworkManager to the sperm of the devil, so I was surprised a couple of people suggested it. I have no opinion myself. I was labouring under the perhaps incorrect belief that NetworkManager was a GNOME thing. I use GNOME on my Jessie box (and for all I know it could be using NetworkManager, albeit it is wired not wireless) but the machine I am dealing with here is running KDE. Based on these I'll probably go with systemd-networkd as I have used it before in recent memory, albeit outside Debian. But I'll read up on the other two as well. Thanks all! Mark
