Re: Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 4/29/2014 13:05, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> can you tell it
>>> that adding a USB device and picking up a dchp address is OK, but you
>>> don't want to change your default route just because dhcp offers it?
>>
>> Mixed DHCP and static IP configurations is a very useful but often
>> neglected combination. [1]
>>
>> Every OS I've used requires some hacking around to make it work as
>> desired.  The only reason Linux is easiest of the bunch is because it
>> has a history of letting you turn off the automation, so you can prevent
>> it from doing undesired things.
>
> Yes, but the configs tend to be tied to the names of the devices.
> If a new device is going to be added on the fly when you jack in a USB
> plug, where do you hack to say that device shouldn't clobber your
> resolv.conf or default gateway.

Or, for that matter, you reboot, and oops, you left a USB key in there,
and /dev/sdc3 ain't there....

     mark

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