Re: Something wrong with NetworkManager

On 6 July 2015 at 06:18, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

I thought you are not supposed to have the same interface managed by
both ifupdown and networkmanager.

The wiki has:

If you want NetworkManager to handle interfaces that are enabled in /etc/network/interfaces:

Set managed=true in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.

Restart NetworkManager:

https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManage

Hi Brian,

Yes, you are right. I used NetworkManager alone some years now. I only turned on ifupdown yesterday after NetworkManager failed to do its job (due to some mysterious reason LOG should clarify).

NetworkManager will not manage an interface listed in /etc/network/interfaces, so they say. So its not managed by both. And that is a great thing, no need to change. Because if NM goes crazy like yesterday, you can chose to change who manages it. If you change "managed=true", then if NM breaks, you'll be left without options. (Well, there is WICD, but you need internet to install it)

After 2 reboots and nothing else from my part except commenting the lines from /etc/network/interfaces (effectively given back control to NetworkManager) it came back alive ok.

Now I'm back to it (NetworkManager) and hope it will keep up.

Thanks.

Beco.

PS. Link:

https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager

Dr Beco
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