Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Jun 7, 2016, at 13:03, Emmett Culley <lst_manage at webengineer.com> > wrote: >> >> I can see no use case for NetwortManager on our systems. All network >> connections are static. > > There are a couple reasons I still use NetworkManager on servers, but one > big one is that the 'network' service runs once, on boot. If there is no > network connection, your server's network connection will never come up > until you log in at a console to fix it or reboot. With the speed of > computers these days, our servers often boot up faster than the networking > equipment after a power cut. > Um, huh? ssh server;service network restart is certainly faster than a reboot. mark