On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:00:32AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
In my case, it's just that it makes sense to have my "primary" IP address given to me by the office DHCP server - it means we can change settings (eg DNS, etc) globally nice and easily. But I also need to be able to configure hardware which will come in with known default IP addresses, so I will need to be able to reach, for example, 192.168.10.1, regardless of what the rest of the network looks like.
For that situation... I would tend to just right click and "disable networking" and then run dhclient manually to regain a dhcp address and then do something like an ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.10.5 or... possibly just put another network card in the machine and tell network manager to leave it alone or assign that a static config but I presume this is on a laptop?
Adam