On 03/25/2014 11:35 PM Christopher Jacoby wrote: > I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get a simple two NIC > bond to work. Got really odd behavior from service network restart, then > finally decided to disable NetworkManager. Voila! Bonding and the network > service script starts working just the way I expect. > > Does anyone here actually use NetworkManager on anything but a laptop or > desktop? I can't seem to figure out a reason to use it on a server. > > Chris Three or four of five times I tried using it and every time it messed things up much more than it helped. And each time, after a bit more investigation and playing around with configuration files, I got things to work without using NM. So I don't use it anymore... and don't recommend it to anyone else.