On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 17:19:27 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 08/01/26 Greg Wooledge said: > > > However, I do have to wonder: why is the OP using network manager for > > this interface, if they already know how to solve the problem using > > ifupdown? Why not simply configure this interface in > > /etc/network/interfaces and be done with it? > > Perhaps because NetworkManager is used on multiple distributions and is now > the > de facto standard.
That's so absurdly untrue that I don't even know how to respond to it. > And since it's a laptop it makes sense to have a dynamic > configuration that I can control from once place, instead of part of my config > in NM and part in interfaces, in a file format that only Debian-based distros > care about. Since on any given day I could be on a variety of systems. A personal decision, then. OK, it looks like the dispatcher.d/ directory is what you want. Let us know if you have any more problems.
