Re: Q: Gnome network odd
On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 22:12 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > I also have a more vague memory that you could put config into
> > /etc/network/interfaces then in some circumstance NetworkManager
> > would
> > not try and manage that interface, and in others it would take
> > over.
> > (Perhaps selected by allow hotplug option in the ifupdown config?)
>
> That seems unlikely. Perhaps you're thinking of NM's ifupdown plugin
> that allows you to use the configuration in /e/n/i. I'm assuming the
> OP has not installed that in their sleep.
They wouldn't need to because it looks like it's shipped with the main
network-manage package which contains various files with 'plugin' in
their name, including libnm-settings-plugin-ifupdown.so.
As we've seen from the OPs latest reply, the plugin is configured to
not manage interfaces.
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Tixy
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