keep eth0 configured even if the cable is disconnected

[Achim Bohnet]

On Monday, 12. January 2009, Andrey Filippov wrote:
> > Not with NetworkManager. Once NM detects the cable is unplugged it will
> > reset the interface.
> >
> > AFAIK you should be able to mark single devices to not be controlled by
> > NetworkManager. But that's distro specific and I don't know much about
> > ubuntu.
> >
> 
> Helmut,
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply. One quick followup question.
> 
> You see, we make cameras based on FOSS (
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/cameras ), many of our customers do not have
> any prior experience with GNU/Linux and we try to help them to install all
> the development environment to work with our products (most fun is when you
> modify our pre-installed firmware). Currently we use Kubuntu and I believe
> KDE-based system is the easiest to use for people who moved from the other
> OS.
> 
> If there is no recommended simple  solution with knetworkmanager, would you
> suggest we instruct all our customers to uninstall it completely and use
> other means to configure their networks?

Kubuntu/Debian way to staticly configure the network
was/is /etc/network/interfaces.   See interfaces manpage.
Devices managed via interfaces file are ignored by
network-manager

Achim
> 
> Andrey Filippov
> Elphel, Inc
> 



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