[ale] Ongoing Ubuntu network suckage

[Andrew Grieser]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:57:08PM -0600, JK 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.

This is why I like to set the DHCP server to hand out static IP's based on mac address. This way you configure it once, in one spot and you can boot multiple distros on the same machine and always get the same address.

I'm sure there's a reason why this method isn't more popular, but I haven't figured it out yet.

Andrew