> Don't run Network Manager with a statically configure interface, it's > not supported by Network Manager.
I'm not trying to run Network Manager to *manage* a statically configured interface. "I" was just trying to run Network Manager while I had a statically configured interface. What actually happened was that I let the etch installer use DHCP, then switched to a statically configured address later. This bit me, but only much later, when I restarted NIS. I *think* that the installer may be installing Network Manager even if you give it a static IP configuration. That seems reasonable to me. network-manager-0.6.4/debian/README.Debian says that Network Manager doesn't manage statically configured interfaces. It doesn't say that it's not supported to have Network Manager installed when you only have statically configured interfaces. Indeed, its example has both statically configured and automatically configured interfaces. OK, so I don't need Network Manager on these machines, at least at the moment (none of them have wifi or anything), so I've uninstalled it.
