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network-manager package

  1. Bug #279262
  2. Comment #50

Comment 50 for bug 279262

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 279262] Re: network-manager After reboot network is totally broken

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:01:15AM -0000, Sergey Elin wrote:
> It seems hwaddress in interfaces ignored too:
>
> # cat /etc/network/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> iface home inet static
> hwaddress ether 00:1E:8C:BA:A5:9A
> address 10.10.142.2
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 10.10.142.1
> dns-nameservers 81.200.0.1
>
> So I haven't network unless run ifup manually.
>

if you use managed=true for nm-system-settings.conf, the hwaddress
would be auto mapped for eth0 etc. but you are right. hwaddress is
probably a missing feature. please open a bug about that.

Thanks,

 - Alexander