Sam is living in an university campus. 
He has a laptop which has only one ethernet port.
He plugs the cable and gets ip adress for eth0 from dhcp (192.168.1.x) He is 
able to access his roommate John's computer which has an ip of 192.168.1.y
Then he wants to connect to the internet, use NM for pppoe connection. Now he 
got 181.x.x.x ip for ppp0 and lost the connection to John's computer.
(He could have used first nm to connect to pppoe, then ifconfig eth0 to eth0 to 
have access for both networks. But he doesn't know and care about this command 
since he thinks nm does manage the all networks.)

He is unhappy with this problem, and tries windows.
He connects to lan with 192.168.1.x ip (only with dhcp)
He connects to wan with 181.x.x.x ip (with pppoe)
Now he has the access to both wan and lan since windows can handle pppoe and 
ethernet connection at the same time.

I am living in this campus. We have a DC server on 192.168.1.1-255
network, but we use pppoe for validating our username, password and mac
adress. At this moment, Windows users could both surf the internet and
use DC, but NM users can not do this in linux.

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[Intrepid] network-manager only allows to use either eth0 or ppp0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290639
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