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Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)



On Mon 27 May 2019 at 10:19:45 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:

> On 05/27/2019 12:46 AM, Curt wrote:
> > On 2019-05-27, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/ tree
> > > (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my boxes about
> > > ten years ago: I was at a customer's, in his LAN via an Ethernet, when
> > > N-M suddenly saw a WLAN out there, out the window and said "oh, let's
> > > go online over there" and obliterated my network setting in favor of
> > > some seedy captive portal. That was when I decided that N-M and me,
> > > we aren't made for each other).
> > > 
> > 
> > This is a grave bug. I suppose we can assume from your description that
> > the seedier the wifi portal, the more likely it is to spontaneously
> > occur, despite any and all user configuration or intervention.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to post the link to your bug report? To your
> > knowledge has the bug been fixed since you reported it a decade ago?  As
> > many users here including myself rely on the N-M app, I'm sure we would
> > all be interested in knowing where we stand.
> 
> Who needs NetworkManager and why?

Curt's query was concise and to the point. You are obviously unable
to respond to it in a manner which advances the discusion. Hence your
pathetic attempt at topic divergence.

Please try to read and respond sympathetically to the posts in -user.

-- 
Brian.





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