John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/25/2013 5:01 AM, mark wrote: >> Two things: unless this is a laptop, shut down NetworkManager - there is >> *no* use for it in a wired environment. > > doesn't it handle DHCP too? or is there an alternate mechanism for that? Dunno if it does, but network certainly does. I would expect dhclient to be installed by default, and so it's merely a matter of making sure that it says BOOTPROTO="dhcp" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<whatever> mark