[CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

On 7/23/2013 3:51 PM, Rock wrote:
> => NM_CONTROLLED="yes"

there ya go!    (NM == NetworkManager)

as root,

     service NetworkManager status

will undoubtedly say its running (and its not something you want to stop 
as its required for wifi and such).

so, set the above line to ="no"  and you can manually configure that port.

or, use the Network Manager GUI to configure it.


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