[ale] OT: rant
Lightner, Jeffrey
JLightner at dsservices.com
Wed Aug 17 10:48:44 EDT 2016
Yep - like I said for later RHEL6.x & all of RHEL7.x Network Manager works fine. I first used it on early RHEL6.x and the recommendation from RedHat back then was to turn it off.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:32 AM
To: Lightner, Jeffrey
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: rant
"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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