On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:54:18AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
On 04/30/2014 02:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
So, have you ever had to deal with a CentOS box and multiple NICs. Especially one where you've cloned it or moved a disk to a new chassis? Apparently there is just not a good way to identify interfaces.
I haven't followed this thread too closely, so if this has already been stated, please forgive me. Judging from both recent editions of Fedora and the free beta RH7, you don't HAVE to use NetworkManager. You will have to manually turn it off and turn network on, and judging by later versions of Fedora (though not at all deeply researched by me) you may need to use the system-config-network-tui tool rather than just editing /etc/sysocnfig/network/network-scripts/ifcfg-*.
Unfortunately, (and freely admitting much of this may be old person's get of my lawn attitude), it does seem that the Fedora developers are working for the single user laptop, and have little concept of system administration--or, to be fair, have little interest in things for the system administrator, and unfortunately, RedHat just throws these things into their next enterprise version without checking.
NM is not going to go away. However, at least for RHEl7, it should be fairly easy to remove it and use /etc/init.d/network.