[ILUG] debian squeeze network & networkmanager

[Shaun Laughey]

On 9 May 2012 11:39, Harry Duncan <usr.src.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> have a squeeze box which disappeared off the lan over the weekend. I
> assumed someone had hit the powerbutton. When I went to the console,
> it was all powered on, but had no ip address. The DHCP lease had
> expired and it had failed to renew.
>
> Didn't have much time to play with it so i rebooted it and ran.
>
> Looking today, I see the /etc/network/interfaces file has:
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> #networkmanager#iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> which I have changed to:
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> Is that likely to cause an issue? Should I now look for some network
> manager daemon and disable that?

Hi Harry,

You have (probably) disabled Network Mangler successfully just by
editing interfaces.

The default on Squeeze is anything named in the interfaces file is
removed from Network Managers control.

See: http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager

Regards,
Shaun Laughey.