Hi ! This behaviour is extremely annoying when you connect directly some machine with a crossover cable for netbooting (eg to install a system on a machine without cdrom player, to scan for viruses, backuping, resizing partitions, or whatever)
Or when ethernet interface is connected to a Powered Over Ethernet (POE) device directly through a POE power supply and that you need to reboot it. The link is lost each time you connect the ethernet cable on another machine and each time you reboot the connected machine. And each time you need to activate the needed configuration again. Trying to flash the firmware of a handfull of POE devices will quickly make you hate the network manager... especially if you have to reconfigure some routes manually also. It would be nice to be able to declare an ethernet configuration as being "sticky" so that the interface would not deconfigure itself when the link is down, and not try to reconfigure itself automatically when the link is up again. Thanks in advance ! Regards, L:üc: _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list