[ale] Ongoing Ubuntu network suckage

[James Sumners]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop machine that I'm actually using as a
> server. I got rid of Network Manager because it completely refused
> to Do What I Told It -- it would always reset every network interface
> back to "DHCP" upon reboot, even if I'd explicitly configured static
> IPs. So I am now configuring all my network interfaces (2 wired
> Ethernet ports and two Belkin wireless USB transceivers) in
> /etc/rc.local, and that mostly works fine.

`man interfaces` [1]

The proper way to configure your network devices is by editing
/etc/network/interfaces.

[1] -- http://tinyurl.com/modlx4


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