Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with NetworkManager?

From	Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with NetworkManager?
Date	2017-03-09 22:30 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:26:40AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
> Any interface defined in the /etc/network/interfaces is by default ignored
> by the NetwokManager. 
> So you have to make the decision how to manage your interface. By removing
> it from that file, NetworkManager takes over control again. However by
> default the NetworkManager also connects the interface if it is plugged in.
> It will try to assign the ip address through dhcp. If you do not want that
> you have to define a new profile and assign that to the interface.

That was my understanding of OP's desire: to have NetworkManager handle the
interface, and do what it does.

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Jonathan Dowland
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How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with  NetworkManager? Farhad Mohammadi Majd <farhadbenyamin@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-09 14:40 +0100
  Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with  NetworkManager? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-09 14:50 +0100
  Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with  NetworkManager? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-09 15:00 +0100
    Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with  NetworkManager? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2017-03-09 15:30 +0100
      Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with  NetworkManager? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-09 22:30 +0100

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