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[ale] OT: rant
- Subject: [ale] OT: rant
- From: james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:23:22 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
> Oh, do tell.
>
> RHEL's basic network configuration stuff hasn't changed in over a
> decade; RHEL4, RHEL5, RHEL6, and RHEL7 all use NetworkManager by default.
>
> Meanwhile, you can disable NetworkManager (on a per-interface basis,
> systemwide, or uninstall it altogether) in favor of using RH's
> essentially-unchanged-for-two-decades classic initscripts, which are
> *still* included (and fully supported) even with bleeding edge Fedora
> Rawhide, with no plans to change.
>
> Indeed, RHEL/Fedora's NetworkManager build has always been configured to
> store its settings in the classic RH /etc/sysconfig/network
> format, so you can freely switch between using NetworkManager and not.
>
It's been a while since I have worked on building a RHEL7 kickstart, but
the way networking is managed in it and RHEL6 _is_ different --
http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/2015-April/151942.html
I've never had to use NetworkManager in either RHEL5 or RHEL6.
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