On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair bonding and bridges. It may be helpful for wireless management or modem connections, but I find it safer to to rip it *out* on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5, and urge turning it off by whatever means are feasible for RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 when it comes out.
Turning it off on CentOS 6 and current versions of Fedora is accomplished by the same means it always has been:
chkconfig NetworkManager off chkconfig network on