NetSetMan Support

mgroen

Member

Registered: 2019-11-11

Posts: 3

How about this?!

question:
is below scenario a valid one? And if so, is this a bug in NetSetMan?
executed steps:
1. Disable my ethernet adapter in Windows 10 using device manager
2. Open Netsetman and activate the profile which uses the same netwerk adapter mentioned in step 1.
3. Netsetman activates the profile with success. (without activating the ethernet adapter).

I would expect NetSetMan can't activate the profile since the device is disabled. Kind of logical thinking, right?

Netsetman support tells me its this way because there is another profile which uses same DHCP settings. This is true, but this shouldn't be a valid reason: Activating any profile which has deactivated devices should either FAIL or result in activating the device.

What do others think?

NetSetMan Support

Administrator

Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: How about this?!

We have already spent a lot of time supporting your email requests, ideas and personal opinions. Your conclusion was that our software does not meet your expectations. We are sorry to hear that, but there is not much we can do about it. You can certainly find another solution that better suits your expecations.

It doesn’t make any sense to start this discussion again after your conclusion, and move it to the forums instead days later. This is a support forum for public communication between users and us. It is unlikely that you will receive many responses from other users to your personal request.

Having said all that, your description does not reflect what we communicated by email. Please re-read all emails.

Here are some quotes from our previous conversation:

We’ve checked your log and video and it is exactly as we assumed in our last email. Please re-read it.
You’re setting the same settings that are already set (DHCP), so this step is skipped and nothing is changed at all.

If you want to force a change in the status of your network adapter, you can set its status to whatever you need. If you want to simply update the already established DHCP connection, you can set the status to Restart. Otherwise the DHCP status is automatically updated whenever you connect to a different network.

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Profiles have no knowledge about each other.

When activating a profile, NetSetMan first checks whether the IP setting is already set or not. If the current IP settings for that adapter are identical to the IP settings in that profile, then the adapter isn’t touched at all. This simply saves time, if you have multiple profiles with the same IP configuration but with different other settings.