<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Phil Turmel" <philip@turmel.org><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, September 15, 2014 10:00:15 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] debian network manager<br><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br></div>The DHCP client runs as a background task, I believe. For changes to<br>take effect, you need to reboot, or at least make your changes while the<br>port is down.<br><div><br></div>Try the following sequence if you haven't yet:<br><div><br></div>1) "ifdown eth0"<br>2) replace /etc/network/interfaces<br>3) "ifup eth0"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh yea. Done that. Debian still says it wants to run DHCP on eth0.</div><div><br></div><div>Google 'NetworkManager Sucks'</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>