Comment 42 for bug 259214

Agreed, this has affected a large amount of people, just look at the amount of duplicate bug reports!
I've had this issue since August and it's still a problem.
As a hack around I've had to disable auto-eth0 and setup another interface with a static ip, but I have to log in to get it applied, so no networking until the user has logged in.
I also agree, that it should have been dealt with before 8.10 was released, this is a major issue, could someone (maybe Dupond Jean-Louis?) increase this to high importance?