[ale] OT: rant

[Derek Atkins]

"Lightner, Jeffrey" <JLightner at dsservices.com> writes:

> FYI: 
> Network Manager didn’t come about until RHEL6 and early advice was to turn it
> off.   On later RHEL6.x versions and RHEL7 it is not quite the problem it was
> in early 6.x.
>
> The odd thing about it is that even when you’re not doing DHCP it wants to set
> your /etc/resolv.conf based on entries stored in your /etc/sysconfig/
> network-scripts ifcfg-* files.  
>
> Another thing that bit me early on when I tried to use it was that it stores
> aliases such as eth1:1 in the main ifcfg-eth1 rather than in separate
> ifcfg-eth1:1 as the older network tool did.   When you’d start networking it
> would find your ifcfg-eth1:1 but assume you meant that to be eth2.   D’oh!

This has certainly been fixed.  Current NM properly uses ifcfg-eth1:1,
provided you also have an ifcfg-eth1 file.

-derek

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