On 04/08/10 10:44, Adam Bower wrote:
If I want to mangle configuration manually I just tell network manager to disable networking and do whatever I need.
Sounds like that's what I need. But I'm not entirely sure how all the bits fit together.
Do I just right-click on the NM icon and untick "Enable Networking", then go about my business in /etc/network/interfaces, or is there more to it than that?
To me it sounds like you have a reasonably complex setup although I can't necessarily see why it wouldn't work but having a dhcp *and* static setup at the same time really seems a bit... hmmn, well, odd. :)
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.