On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: >> 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 > > The key to *keeping* it off in RHEL 6, and I assume in CentOS 6, is > the setting NM_CONTROLLED="no" in the > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files. This is a new setting in > RHEL 6, and I'm having difficulty finding documentation for it, but it > seems to work in keeping NetworkManager's greedy little paws off my > stable settings. In both the RH and FP docs, the only reference that I've found is in this section: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-Network_Configuration-Bridged_networking_with_libvirt.html RHEL 5 has a similar section so it's not a new setting, just a not-well-documented one (like a DNS or DHCP one that you referred to recently).