Bug 149008

Summary:	Changing network interface address from automatic to manual has no apparent effect without disable/enable
Product:	[Unmaintained] knetworkmanager	Reporter:	paul
Component:	general	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description paul 2007-08-19 22:34:56 UTC

Version:           0.2 (using KDE 3.5.6, Kubuntu (feisty) 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.20-15-generic

After installing Feisty and changing the network interface eth0 from automatic to manual, the stated address did not take effect either as the current network address (since the interface is active) or in the user interface (the old address is still shown after "Apply" is selected). However, the /etc/network/interfaces file does report the change, and disabling then enabling the interface does cause the change to take effect.

There should be something which tells the user to disable then enable the interface if they want the new settings, or the change should just happen automatically. The current situation makes the inexperienced user think that nothing has happened when this is only partially the case.

Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2008-11-20 11:28:52 UTC

What app are you actually using when you say "changing the network interface eth0 from automatic to manual"?  AFAIR the version of NetworkManager they had in Feisty only supported automatic IP address so I doubt this is what you mean, and I suspect you're using some other, kubuntu specific network management tool.

Comment 2 paul 2008-11-20 20:40:40 UTC

I'm using Gutsy now, but I'm pretty sure that it was the Network Settings section of the System Settings application. If I choose "Report Bug..." the dialogue chooses "systemsettings" as the application.

Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2008-11-21 08:23:30 UTC

Thanks for clearing that up.  It's not a network config tool from KDE, but a network config tool from Kubuntu running inside KDE's System Settings.  Please report it to Kubuntu.