Re: [CentOS] Odd ethernet interface

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:42:03 -0700 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:

is there any documentation on how to work with NetworkManager in shell-only mode? the RHEL manuals I looked at all seemed to assume you're running a GUI console, which I never do on my servers.

I'd recommend the same treatment for network manager as we used for sendmail all those years back: # yum -y remove NetworkManager

And then configure your network the old, verified, stable and trusted way, by editing the ifcfg files. The whole idea of having something running on a *server* that can change your networks settings for whatever reason is horribly wrong.

To answer your question, there exist something called nm-cli, but I found it to be not of much use.