On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On 4/29/2014 13:05, Les Mikesell wrote: >> can you tell it >> that adding a USB device and picking up a dchp address is OK, but you >> don't want to change your default route just because dhcp offers it? > > Mixed DHCP and static IP configurations is a very useful but often > neglected combination. [1] > > Every OS I've used requires some hacking around to make it work as > desired. The only reason Linux is easiest of the bunch is because it > has a history of letting you turn off the automation, so you can prevent > it from doing undesired things. Yes, but the configs tend to be tied to the names of the devices. If a new device is going to be added on the fly when you jack in a USB plug, where do you hack to say that device shouldn't clobber your resolv.conf or default gateway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com