Re: traditional static ip with nm

[Graham Lyon <graham lyon gmail com>]

2009/12/5 David Griffith <dgriffi cs csubak edu>

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Dan Williams wrote:

NM natively supports static IP addresses; so you can either configure
them via /etc/network/interfaces as you normally would, or you can use
nm-connection-editor along with the 'keyfile' plugin to set up a
system-wide configuration for your  machines without touching /e/n/i.

My problem with that approach is that the network goes down when the console is logged out.

Not anymore - networkmanager supports system-wide connections that stay active as long as the networkmanager daemon is running.