On 03/08/10 12:34, Adam Bower wrote:
you say you made some changes? what were they and what did you expect it to do?
I don't recall exactly, but they didn't feel like the kind of things that should be "wrong" :-)
I think I created a new profile with a static IP (the existing one was DHCP) and switched between them (to access different subnets of the office network). That worked. I then tried to edit my new profile to give me a static IP on both subnets and delete the old DHCP profile, but that's where it went wrong. I ended up connected on a profile that no longer existed and unable to change to the new profile, or something like that.
There are some definite weak areas that I can be specific about though; entering a new IP address is hard work, because you have to click into each field (tabbing doesn't seem to work properly), and clicking Add to add a second IP without first clicking out of the one you just added causes the last entry to be blanked (in this case the default gateway). Stuff like this just makes it feel "unfinished". I guess it means that the people who could fix these "paper cuts" are the kind of people who don't use NM?
What would be good would be if I could have a DHCP setup and add additional static IPs on top. Technically there's no reason not to, and from the point of view of /etc/network/interfaces I think it's simple enough too, but NM (like Windows) prevents that kind of thing (Windows can do it via a registry hack but you have to redo the hack every new IP you add so its more hassle than its worth). Can I get NM to not manage my LAN but still manage other stuff (WLAN, VPN, etc)?