Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

[jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com>]

On 8/4/25 11:18, Titus Newswanger wrote:
> FWIW, I generally don't get along with NetworkManager on server 
> installations and end up uninstalling it and running either 
> systemd-networkd or netplan. I just got done with a server install 
> where the network was not coming up until after I logged into the 
> desktop. I removed NetworkManager and used systemd-networkd then 
> everything worked like I wanted. 


I totally agree with that approach. NM is very dodgy and it's quite sad 
that it's the default install on most distros.

systemd-networkd is very reliable and not hard at all to configure