[CentOS] C8 and NetworkManager problem

> Hi list,
>
> I've installed C8 on my workstation. I configured my network devices
> (two bridges, two nics) using nmcli. Now that NM is the default I tried
> it. On C7 I always disabled it.
>
> I noticed some problem:
>
> 1) During the boot, also if NetworkManager-wait-online.service status is
> OK, I noticed that opening a terminal and ping some address it needs
> some time to perform ping and any operation on a network connection. So
> seems that in the first 30sec/1min there isn't an available network
> connection. After this time if I run a ping or whatever network is
> available.
>
> 2) Due to the problem 1, It cannot mount samba shares on boot saying
> "Not suitable address found". After the network is available I can mount
> samba shares.
>
> 3) I noticed that with NetworkManager a bridge must have an address. If
> I don't specify an address for the bridge, NM will try to assign some
> address, enable the connection  forever (reporting errors in messages
> and on notification bar).
>
> 4) NetworkManager-wait-online slow down  boot time and network
> availability.
>
> To solve this problem I installed network-scripts and disabled
> NetworkManager but I don't understand why NetworkManager need so much
> time to enable a connection.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?

I don't know C8 or smbmount but on C7 with nfs, I had to add this to the
fstab options to make it works as expected:

x-systemd.requires=network-online.target

Maybe something similar is needed in your situation.

Regards,
Simon