On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 6:26 AM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote: > > > On 10/3/19 2:42 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I have need to use the old network-scripts and not NetworkManager. > > Why? I'd like to understand more about the use case where this is a > requirement. > > > One example we have is qemu virtual machine hosts where setting up the bridge in the ifcfg scripts is easier and avoiding NetworkManager messing things up in a non-intuitive way is critical. Also, we have 150+ machines with fixed IP addresses, always-on connections, and no wireless. Having NetworkManager do seemingly random things is not desirable. FWIW we disable NetworkManager with systemctl in our potinstall kickstart scripts and it seems to do what we want. -- > Jim Perrin > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org > twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>