Re: network manager post-up hook
On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 17:19:27 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 08/01/26 Greg Wooledge said:
>
> > However, I do have to wonder: why is the OP using network manager for
> > this interface, if they already know how to solve the problem using
> > ifupdown? Why not simply configure this interface in
> > /etc/network/interfaces and be done with it?
>
> Perhaps because NetworkManager is used on multiple distributions and is now the
> de facto standard.
That's so absurdly untrue that I don't even know how to respond to it.
> And since it's a laptop it makes sense to have a dynamic
> configuration that I can control from once place, instead of part of my config
> in NM and part in interfaces, in a file format that only Debian-based distros
> care about. Since on any given day I could be on a variety of systems.
A personal decision, then. OK, it looks like the dispatcher.d/ directory
is what you want. Let us know if you have any more problems.
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