[CentOS] Centos 7 Network Question

[david]

At 07:44 AM 5/11/2015, you wrote:
>On 11-05-2015 00:57, david wrote:
>>I have a question about the network and Centos 7
>>
>>I am experimenting with two C7 installations:
>>- On relatively new hardware, configured with fixed IP address in IPV4 only
>>- on top of Windows, using VMWare, sharing my windows connection via
>>Vmware's bridge with IPV4 only.
>>
>>On both configurations, I run a script every five minutes to test the
>>network.  The sequence is as follows:
>>- Find the default interface using "ip route"
>>- Find that interface's IP address by scanning the output of "ip route"
>>for a match in interface.
>>
>>If the above tests fail to resolve, I issue "systemctl restart network",
>>and post a mail message to myself.  When this happens, the network does
>>indeed come back correctly.
>
>If you are using fixed IP addresses, how is this check supposed to 
>detect network failures? Actually I'm surprised that it's failing 
>sometimes, as it should be pretty static.
>
>If that test is really that way, I would recommend saving those 
>outputs for post analysis because the shouldn't be changing like 
>that. Like, instead of ip route | grep, save it to a file using a 
>known timestamp, grep on it and leave it there/mail it to you if it fails.
>
>   Marcelo

Marcelo et al

Of course, now that I stare at my environment, have 'avahi' and 
'network manager' turned off, the failure does not show up.
So, I withdraw the problem.

David