On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:47, Joe Smithian wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for your comments. What's the purpose of creating spurious ‘bond0’? > It's confusing. Is it anywhere documented? > Every time I restart NetworkManager it creates another bond0! > > Joe [snip] For me the soution was to create a script that removes the "bond0" when NetworkManager is stopped, I have it integrated into the NetworkManager.service via a drop-in scriptlet into the dir "/etc/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d/" here is my scriptlet: /etc/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d/remove-bond0-at-stop [code] # remove "bond0" interface at stop, it will be re-created at start [Service] ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/bash /path/to/shellscript [/code] sadly the shell script has been lost since, with the move to a machine with 10GbE interfaces. - Yamaban.