This has been fixed and merged upstream in nm-applet/network-manager 1.4.2.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763937#c14 Ubuntu 17.04 has 1.4.4. Is it possible to backport this to 16.04 LTS? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098362 Title: DHCP settings for network manager shared connection are hard-coded source, should be editable Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1) Ubuntu 10.04, but it's in all versions. 2) any version of network manager 3) I want to be able to change the DHCP settings for a shared network connection 4) YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM WON'T LET ME! The file nm-device.c contains this line: nm-device.c: guint32 start = (guint32) ntohl (0x0a2a2b01); /* 10.42.43.1 */ hard-coding DHCP settings that should obviously be editable by the user is a TERRIBLE IDEA. PLEASE FIX. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1098362/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
