[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#809851: Bug#809851: Bug#809851: network-manager: Doesn't respect static ifupdown interface

[Chris Chiappa]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:26:13PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Nothing changed in that regard for a long while.
> 
> If you configure NM via managed=true, you tell it to read the
> configuration from /e/n/i and configure the interface accordingly.
> 
> If you already have ifupdown enabled, this of course means that the
> interface will be managed by two systems.
> This is the reason why managed=false is the default.
> 
> If you want to use managed=true, you should consider
> disabling/uninstalling ifupdown.
> 
> But it's much better to simply configure the interfaces directly via
> NetworkManager and remove the interface configurations from /e/n/i.
Right, I can understand that I'm in some sort of weird state here, but
it still seems strange to me that

• NetworkManager claims to read /e/n/i
• /e/n/i sets a static IP setup for eth0
• NetworkManager starts dhclient for eth0, despite it having a static IP

Anyways, I will assume I'm just missing something obvious here at this
point and try to adopt a more modern setup.  Thanks for the help!