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I believe that is what justifier was alluding to as 'shamanic preconditions'.

• lmm 12y ago
  They're two simple lines and they work everywhere; I'd understand "shamanic" to mean things that work as long as you sacrifice a chicken and the phase of the moon is right and your heart is pure. i.e. networkmanager.
  • justifier 12y ago
    The shamanic line was because those two lines you suggested would sometimes work, then suddenly stop working, or just fall to start working, or even rarely dibilitate all network activity where manually removing the flag and disabling the route failed to fix anything; then requiring a full reboot to fix Sometimes using those two lines would work alone, sometimes they would only work in conjunction with more lines with different flags.. This is why I said reliable and shamanic I run ubuntu 1404 server, slack on my notebook, debian on my home box.. Those two lines all do something different on each at different times of day under different moons, or alike when they all fail to do anything at all I chalked it up to some kind of collision with how nm or wicd, machine respective, were trying to run their show
    • lmm 12y ago
      On slack or pre-systemd debian, those two lines work 100% reliably (I've used them thousands of times), unless you've installed something that would screw them up. On ubuntu I wouldn't be surprised if network manager arbitrarily messed up your stuff.
      • justifier 12y ago
        i have wicd installed on both and it seems to have a waffling identity crisis trying to connect to both my eth0 and wlan0 its been years since i tried a *BSD back in my greener days when i was trying every alt os around before i settled on linux by way of slack, but itd be interesting to look at it now with more knowledge of the whys and wherefores