Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
NetworkManager is by far the best way to manage jumping between
different networks.
Network-Manager is annoying. Only last night did I work out what was causing my
intermittent network problems at home. It was NetworkManager that says from its man
page " ... and change name servers whenever it sees fit, with the aim of making
networking Just Work."
I would swap /etc/network/interfaces from a dhcp to a static one when changing from
work location to home and 'sudo ifup eth0'. Things would work, ifconfig would show my
static route, then things would not work, ifconfig would show an old dhcp route
suddenly in place. I'd set up a static route again and repeatedly run ifconfig to see
what was happening. After a short time the static route would get replaced again. A
'ps ax' showed NetworkManager was the likely culprit so I killed it. I'm in control
again.
I think it got installed with all the Gnome crap.
Mike
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