us network and Uuntu 8.10 - is there a better way?

[Alexander Chemeris]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Cédric Berger
<cedric.berger74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:46, Joel Newkirk <freerunner at newkirk.us> wrote:
>> Also be aware that the Network Manager in Ubuntu Intrepid is currently
>> buggy.  If you have it running, it is prone to do friendly things like
>> automatically add the static IP and route for eth0 to usb0 when it comes
>> up. Either it controls all interfaces, or it's not running, right now it
>> refuses to leave any interface alone and hopelessly bungles anything
>> statically defined in /etc/network/interfaces, ignoring the 'ignore
>> interface' flag and claiming all interfaces.
>>
>> (yeah, same IP and route on two interfaces, and default tries to go out the
>> wrong interface so the desktop is effectively off the network, and it
>> leaves behind an empty /etc/resolv.conf - sounds like a FreeRunner :)
>>
>
> Thanks, I did wonder what I did wrong on my computer to have default
> network route directed to freerunner as soon as I plugged it in ! (so
> no more internet access)
> I am not used to linux networking, so it took me a while to figure how
> to manually delete this rule... (and the network manager UI was not of
> a great help... not so user friendly !)

Network manager also rewrites /etc/resolv.conf with empty line, effectively
preventing DNS from working. So I just uninstaled it and now I feel much safer.
It's not needed on a standalone computer anyway.


-- 
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.

SIPez LLC.
SIP VoIP, IM and Presence Consulting
http://www.SIPez.com
tel: +1 (617) 273-4000