On 8 March 2017 at 11:15, Alice Wonder alice@domblogger.net wrote:
On 03/08/2017 01:57 AM, Giles Coochey wrote:
The recommended configuration for EL7 is to use NetworkManager unless you have a very specific edge case preventing you from doing so:
The truth is a lot of us run servers that don't need to have their network "managed" by Networkmanager.
My experience was very difficult going to 7.2 to 7.3 because of a change in the behavior of NetworkManager with respect to IPv6 but once I had it figured out (thanks to people on this list) it worked out quite well and I kept NetworkManager.
But I certainly understand why some don't want to do that.
That's fine Alice (and I remember your issue well with the minimally documented change to stable-privacy by default for new systems ... argh I still need to write up a blog article about that) but in this case the person concerned isn't even using the network service, which if legacy and semi-deprecated is still supported, but just doing a ridiculous and unsupportable mini script (I'm guessing from rc.local?) which doesn't handle pretty much any actual networking issue that may come up - eg failed/delayed interface.