Network setup

[Thiago Farina]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:19 PM, W Scott Lockwood III
<vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/2016 4:16 PM, Thiago Farina wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is this the right mailing list to post about network issues?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
> It can be. Go ahead and post your question to the list. :-)
>
OK. It is more like a suggestion.

On Mac OS X [1] one can do the following to set a static ip for a
network device:

$ sudo networksetup -setmanual Ethernet [ipaddress] [subnet] [router]

On Ubuntu (I'm on 12.04) you have to disable dnsmasq on NetworkManager
(and this can break your dns resolution in the process), edit
/etc/network/interfaces, restart the network-manager service and hope
for the best. And in the end you give up the command line and end up
doing this through the UI.

Why does Ubuntu not invest in making an administration tool like
networksetup for its users?

[1] - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/networksetup.8.html

-- 
Thiago Farina