From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWxVn-0000y2-45 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:39:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B80D9E03B7; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:38:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746FEE03B7 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:38:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [1.36.68.33] (1.36.68.33) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) id 497EEED002111304 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:38:42 +0100 From: Francesco Talamona Organization: i.Know To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management? Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:38:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <49bf44f10902071101v20481148lc3647baa6289834b@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10902071546x54222412vd0e21038773762d@mail.gmail.com> <200902081105.36418.francesco.talamona@know.eu> In-Reply-To: <200902081105.36418.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902101938.41933.francesco.talamona@know.eu> X-Archives-Salt: 0ec7b0e6-8099-4bc0-b916-375701e91fb8 X-Archives-Hash: 02b1db7a8831b7e4baf55b62dbdcbd52 On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: > > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? > > Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed > me :-) > > I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, > sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. > > eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane > to inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed > IP, internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose > its address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is > unplugged. > > Is it there a way to fix this? > > With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for > a few minutes, then it switches back to wired. > > So I'm going to try wpa_gui... > > Cheers > Francesco An the winner is... wicd. The uptime was quite regular, so it came to my mind the DHCP client demon. It was the DHCP indeed, instead of automatic (that picks up dhclient) I switched to dhcpcd and now works like a charm Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 26 08:55:48 CET 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.02 Bogomips Total aemaeth