[ale] total server wierdness

[Scott McBrien]

Make sure someone didn't do something stupid and turn on NetworkManager.  In CentOS 6 it didn't share the ifcfg files and didn't manage multiple Nics very well.

-Scott


> On Nov 15, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A CentOS 6.6 system decided that the network setup was to be ignored. A single nic that was configured for static IP went bozo and switched itself into DHCP mode. The configuration was still static IP. It even showed it was checking for the static IP being in use before it finalized the setup and reported it was all OK. Then it goes and gets an IP address from itself since it's the DHCP server.
> 
> There are 2 other nic and they had no problems. The problem nic is a 10G card and the other 2 are motherboard 1G.
> 
> It was working without any issues for a year in this configuration. The last change was to add an Ubuntu 14.04 TFTP bootable kernel to the TFT server and menu for PXE booting new server configs.
> 
> Anyone seen anything like this before?
> 
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