<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Do you/others set static IPs on boxes these days, other than the DHCP server and/or firewall itself? I was taught to make pretty much everything DHCP, and just set a static reservation in the DHCP server for the boxes where you don't want the addresses to change. That way, you have one place to manage all the addresses.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>--<br>Scott Plante <br>404-873-0058 x104<br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio via Ale" <ale@ale.org><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:36:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Multi-label names<br><br>I don't have any answers.<br><br>First, Ubuntu/debian doesn't use /etc/sysconfig/ anything. That's a<br>RHEL-family thing, I think.<br><br>Running a non-LTS is crazy, IMHO. In 17.10, network setups changed.<br>They've added a new middleman - beyond resolvconf. NetPlan is the name.<br>Sorry, I haven't looked at it at all, since no LTS has it.<br>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigratingToNetplan might be helpful. Someone<br>decided that yaml is easier than the interfaces file.<br><br>I purge all network manager stuff and either have static IPs or use DHCP<br>reservations from the network DHCP server. Find it is easier for my<br>needs. I understand that network manager is better now than when it was<br>when I had all sorts of issues with it.<br><br>I've also found that purging avahi is helpful. It gets in the middle of<br>name resolution stuff - I usually see issues with samba that are solved<br>by NOT having avahi installed.<br><br>But I really don't know anything.<br><br></div></div></body></html>