[CentOS] Odd ethernet interface

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/04/11 6:29 PM, Jure Pečar wrote:
>> 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.
>
> great.  how do I do dhcp (client) without NetworkManager ?  Most all my
> lab servers are configured via DHCP reservations.
>
> and where IS the docs on what-all goes in ifcfg-eth0 or whatever now
> days?  again, the RHEL6 manuals seem to skip over these details.
>

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

it's documented same as in previous versions in
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt