On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:13:15AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 07:30:56 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 03:27:33 Greg Madden
wrote:
it seems like a network manager issue
Thanks, Greg. I'll investigate.
PEBKAC :-(
In my opinion, the only PEBKAC problem there is between the keyboard
and chair of the person/people responsible for Network Manager. It is
practically malware.
My experience with NM is that it is simply unreliable. It fights with
the rest of the system (e.g. ifdown and ifup commands). I used to have
NM running on my Debian laptop, and I frequently lost my network
connection two or three times a week. Invariably, NM claimed the
connection was up and everything was fine, and reconnection did nothing.
Stopping and starting did nothing. Only a reboot fixed it, which is
unforgiveable in my opinion.
Eventually, the sys admins at work badgered me into uninstalling NM.
Since then, I've only lost the network connection a handful of times,
and when it drops out,
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
fixes it immediately.
Somehow, NM has re-installed itself on my wife's PC, and since then she
can't print to a network printer from some applications (while others
work fine). Coincidence? I think not.
--
Steve