[colug-432] Ubuntu as a router?

[Vince Herried]

On Friday 02 October 2009 10:21:40 Larry Howell wrote:
> Another possibility for your Ubuntu system would be to "apt-get purge 
> network-manager" to completely remove Network Manager (and related 
> helpers), its config files, and give you control of the network related 
> *.conf files again.  The downside is that it may be reinstalled on an 
> update.  I've not actually tried to remove N-M, so YMMV.
> 

I've dealt with this on my fedora system by just setting 
Network Manager to not start at boot.
Seems to take care of it fine.

$ chkconfig NetworkManager off

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