Hi

Many thanks for that. I created a new network connection (called comet)  
and set a static Ip address for that. I can connect to comet and it works  
fine: the static IP is saved and my VPN client connects to my work VPN.  
However, when I reboot the machine it always starts up connected to eth0.  
I intend to put this machine in the loft and never connect to it as a  
desktop machine. How can I get the default interface to be comet when I  
reboot?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mike

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:31:02 -0000, Joel Goguen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Sorry Mike, I have no idea where I got the name Thomas from :)
>
> If you attempt to save changes to a network with a name starting with
> 'Auto' the changes will not be saved.  This should be in the
> documentation, if not then you have a valid documentation bug.  For
> Network Manager, this is not a bug but rather it is intentional.  To
> save your changes, you will need to give the connection a name that does
> not begin with "Auto".  "Home", "Ethernet", "Main Connection" are all
> valid names that can have changes saved.  You will still see 'Auto eth0'
> in Network Manager, that won't go away, but you can choose to connect to
> the other one instead.
>
> Please try to set a static IP address again, but this time before saving
> change the name of the network, and let us know if that works.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>


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