bill wrote: > when I go preferences > network connection > and change it from DHCP to manual and add a connection I can enter the > IP address (192.168.0.101) and the subnet mask (255.255.255.0) and > gateway (192.168.0.20), but when I click apply it changes the gateway > back to 0.0.0.0. > I decided to do it manually and opened /etc/network/interfaces, and > found it only had two lines in it, with none of the addressing > information as it does on the server version. > > 1) anyone have an idea as to why it will not accept and keep the gateway > address, and > 2) where is the data kept ? > If you want to use a static ethernet connection and aren't concerned with wireless or hotplugged network interfaces, then install the gnome-network-admin package and uninstall (or disable in start-up scripts) network manager. That will install a gui that configures your network via /etc/network/interfaces instead of network-manager.