Comment 2 for bug 278211
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| Shaun Crampton (fasaxc) wrote Re: [Intrepid] Regression from Hardy: nm-applet manual configuration option missing | #2 |
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Thanks for your help, I think I now have it configured correctly. However, the new system seems like it needs some usability improvements:
- It forced me to specify a gateway in the manual confiig even though there isn't one on the network attached to the interface (since this computer is an LTSP server with two NICs). I tried setting it to my IP, but that didn't work and it magically changed to 0.0.0.0 when I opened the dialog for a second time.
- There is no help or example configuration to help.
- There are a number of options that are not explained "Link local"; "Shared to other computers"; "DHCP Addresses only".
- It's not clear what the system setting and connect automatically check boxes do. As a technical user I'm guessing that the former makes it a global configuration rather than tied to my user account. I'm not sure if the latter means "connect to the internet over this interface whenever it's available" or "bring this interface up at boot".
- The routes dialog is also completely devoid of help or examples. Even as a technical user, I need a reminder of how to fill all those rather complicated fields in.