On 10/5/19 11:29 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > ... > On the other hand, most of the idea that the old config scripts were > deterministic and imperative was built on a large amount of hacks to > try and make it so. Having spent more time than I want dealing with > systems which seem to be just like everything else but coming up with > eth0 being eth4 (I am looking at you 40 Dell, HP and IBM boxes) on a > reboot half the time.. ... I remember having that happen a few times back in CentOS 4.x days, where eth0 would silently become eth1 after a kernel update and ifcfg-eth0 would break hard. It's gotten a lot better than it was, and I've had very few problems in my use cases with NM. YMMV, of course.