[CentOS] NetworkManager: Remove one of two DHCP leases

2021-05-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
I forgot to release the DHCP IPv4 lease on a PC before I deployed it at the customer site. So now the box has two leases for a couple days, when the old lease expires. What's the proper way to force the unwanted additional lease to expire immediately? It's mucking up my resolv.conf with the old

[CentOS] NetworkManager, Centos 8, Ipv6 Prefix Delegation

2020-06-23 Thread Joe
Hello, i try to use (Centos8) NetworkManager builtin Prefix-Delegation for ipv6. Unfortunately i found no howto is helping me. i do: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf: [main] dhcp=dhclient Modify Cons: nmcli con modify LOKAL1 ipv6.method shared nmcli con modify LOKAL2 ipv6.method sha

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-16 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/02/2020 à 17:50, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : In the end, the problem is that NetworkManager, FirewallD, and other 'automatic' helpers are 'part' of the OS.. and while it was easy to tear them out in earlier versions.. as time goes on it is not. For a car analogy, it was much easier to c

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-15 Thread Natxo Asenjo
hi, On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 8:55 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > > On servers though, one of the first post-installation steps I performed > was to > get rid of Network-Manager and all its components. The servers I'm working > on > are relatively small-scale and have from one to four ne

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2020-02-13 10:50, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 11:40, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 11/02/2020 à 14:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link detectio

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:53:41PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > I just came to the same conclusion. So it looks like I'll have to > catch up and do some RTFM on NetworkManager, FirewallD (which I've > replaced by a handcrafted iptables script) and Chrony (replaced by > ntpd). Whatever your views

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/02/2020 à 17:50, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : In the end, the problem is that NetworkManager, FirewallD, and other 'automatic' helpers are 'part' of the OS.. and while it was easy to tear them out in earlier versions.. as time goes on it is not. For a car analogy, it was much easier to c

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 11:40, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 11/02/2020 à 14:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > > I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager > > is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link > > detection and activation/deactivation, a dispatch

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/02/2020 à 14:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link detection and activation/deactivation, a dispatch service on link activation/deactivation, support for bringing up

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:29:29PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > As much as I love CentOS (been using it since 4.x), some days I just miss > the bone-headed approach of Slackware and FreeBSD. Just edit > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf or /etc/rc.conf and you're done. Nothing is stopping you from creatin

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/02/2020 à 16:27, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : 1. Red Hat is a company of 14,000 people many of which have diverging views on how things should be run and why. This means that you may see 4-5 different tools to fix a problem all of which solve the part that they were originally developed f

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 08:17, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:12 AM Jonathan Billings > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > > Unfortunately, instead of fixing/refactoring the whole bash networking > > > script mess, anot

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:17:18AM -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I thought that systemd was under redhat, so I am confused why > they would not be pushing it instead of networkmanager. Am I missing > something? systemd has several Red Hat employees working on systemd, I believe, but it's

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:12 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > Unfortunately, instead of fixing/refactoring the whole bash networking > > script mess, another new project was started instead, called > > systemd-networkd :-)

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > Thanks for confirming that NetworkManager is not the solution for > everyone. To me it seems that NetworkManager was developed by laptop users > for laptop users and that's why it is what it is today. Useful for > laptops/de

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 09/02/2020 23:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi Nicolas, > > [snip] > >> Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory >> from now on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this >> list. > > Like you, I read about NetworkManager becoming the default tool for

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 09/02/2020 23:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi Nicolas, [snip] > Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory > from now on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this list. Like you, I read about NetworkManager becoming the default tool for CentOS 8. So I sa

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen said: > The reason is that having 1 way to configure networks makes it so the > developer and tech support only have to diagnose issues from 1 set of tools > versus two different ones (and occasionally 2 competing ones if both are > trying to do their job at

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 02:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently reading the upstream "Considerations in adopting RHEL 8" > document. The chapter about networking states that traditional networking > scripts (shipped with the network-scripts package) are considered obsolete. > > I blun

[CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently reading the upstream "Considerations in adopting RHEL 8" document. The chapter about networking states that traditional networking scripts (shipped with the network-scripts package) are considered obsolete. I bluntly admit I don't see the point in this. As far as I'm concern

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Simon Matter wrote: Alice was talking about CentOS 7.5, which doesn't have systemd-resolved nor does it have systemd-networkd. I didn't look at EL8 betas yet but we can probably expect systemd-networkd to be included there. If that's the case, we'll probably have legacy scri

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-18 Thread Simon Matter
> > On 11/19/18 6:49 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 11/17/18 8:31 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. >> >> unbound running on localhost. >> >> Have to u

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-18 Thread anax
On 11/19/18 6:49 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 11/17/18 8:31 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. unbound running on localhost. Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resol

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-18 Thread Simon Matter
> On 11/17/18 8:31 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >>> On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. unbound running on localhost. Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resolv.conf using >>

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-17 Thread Nataraj
On 11/17/18 8:31 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >>> CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. >>> >>> unbound running on localhost. >>> >>> Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resolv.conf using >>> the loc

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-17 Thread Alice Wonder
On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. unbound running on localhost. Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resolv.conf using the localhost for name resolution - whenever NetworkManager gets resta

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-17 Thread Alice Wonder
On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. unbound running on localhost. Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resolv.conf using the localhost for name resolution - whenever NetworkManager gets restarted (usually only a system boot) it gets ove

[CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-17 Thread Alice Wonder
CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. unbound running on localhost. Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resolv.conf using the localhost for name resolution - whenever NetworkManager gets restarted (usually only a system boot) it gets over-written. It seems every distro has a diff

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager, multiple IPs, and selinux...

2018-10-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/4/18 1:10 PM, Sean wrote: I was wondering if any one has seen issues with selinux name_bind denials that result from having IP:PORT bindings for services to specific IP addresses managed on an interface under NetworkManager's control? I don't.  I have httpd processes listening on specifi

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager, multiple IPs, and selinux...

2018-10-04 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 10/4/18 4:10 PM, Sean wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if any one has seen issues with selinux name_bind denials > that result from having IP:PORT bindings for services to specific IP > addresses managed on an interface under NetworkManager's control? Is selinux denying the request or the

[CentOS] NetworkManager, multiple IPs, and selinux...

2018-10-04 Thread Sean
Hello, I was wondering if any one has seen issues with selinux name_bind denials that result from having IP:PORT bindings for services to specific IP addresses managed on an interface under NetworkManager's control? I do realize that people will probably say stop using NetworkManager, and I may,

[CentOS] NetworkManager and multiple dhcp router option

2018-09-28 Thread Nux!
Hello, Our DHCP server broadcasts a router option consisting of 2 IPs. Ideally they should both be set as default routes with different metrics, however this is not what is happening, only the first one gets used. Anyone has any tips how to convince NetworkManager to do this? Cheers -- Sent fro

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager updating resolv.cfg

2018-06-25 Thread Maheshwari, Shagun
ords at all. jh -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:14:08 +0100 From: "peter.winterflood" To: CentOS mailing list , anax Subject: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager updating resolv.cfg Message-ID: <16422442280.27db.2b6837a33dad96cb17d193f32630f...@os

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager updating resolv.cfg

2018-06-21 Thread peter.winterflood
On 21 June 2018 12:13:02 "anax" wrote: Hi Shagun check your settings of PEERDNS and IPV6_PEERDNS... suomi On 06/21/2018 08:33 AM, Maheshwari, Shagun wrote: Hi, I am facing issue stoping NetworkManager to update resolv.cfg, I am using below configuration for eth0 interface: TYPE=Ether

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager updating resolv.cfg

2018-06-21 Thread anax
Hi Shagun check your settings of PEERDNS and IPV6_PEERDNS... suomi On 06/21/2018 08:33 AM, Maheshwari, Shagun wrote: Hi, I am facing issue stoping NetworkManager to update resolv.cfg, I am using below configuration for eth0 interface: TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=dhcp DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FA

[CentOS] NetworkManager updating resolv.cfg

2018-06-20 Thread Maheshwari, Shagun
Hi, I am facing issue stoping NetworkManager to update resolv.cfg, I am using below configuration for eth0 interface: TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=dhcp DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy NAME=eth0

[CentOS] NetworkManager dnsmasq plugin

2018-05-05 Thread Frank Cox
I am trying to get dnsmasq to work through NetworkManager by putting dns=dnsmasq into /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf NetworkManager still works but dnsmasq doesn't start. I get this error in /var/log/messages: could not load plugin 'dnsmasq' from file '/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/libnm-se

[CentOS] NetworkManager and Half DHCP not work correct - second time.

2017-03-01 Thread Andreas Benzler
Hello Guys, today i strungle in my office and at home. 1. The networkadapter works before on "full" dhcp. 2. change to half (means searchname and searchserver manual) 3. order was correct inside the config, but in seperated network configs: PEERDNS=yes ? 5. DNS Server where in wrong

[CentOS] NetworkManager vs. Firewalld vs. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*****

2017-01-16 Thread Mike
I've made 3 CentOS 7 installation attempts to configure a simple firewall/router box with 2 nics. I got myself into a circular scenario where NetworkManager and firewalld and /etc/sysconfig/network-scrpts/ifcfg-* were interfering or overwriting each other. Needed to perform ifdown enp3s7 on th

[CentOS] networkmanager VS OpenConnect VPN

2016-12-20 Thread Fred Smith
I have a VPN connection using the openconnect vpn, and it is managed by network manager. Works fine. It has been on my system since the original Centos 7.x release. Now that I have Centos 7.3, while it still works fine, I find that I can no longer add a new connection using openconnect. I also f

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager icon not showing

2016-11-02 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 02/11/2016 à 17:16, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. Wireless was working > OK at first, but now for mysterious reasons the NetworkManager icon > seems to have disappeared from the notification area. When I click on > that area, there's only informatio

[CentOS] NetworkManager icon not showing

2016-11-02 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. Wireless was working OK at first, but now for mysterious reasons the NetworkManager icon seems to have disappeared from the notification area. When I click on that area, there's only information showing about sound, brightness, battery status a

[CentOS] NetworkManager default route

2016-03-19 Thread Sander Kuusemets
Hello, Why is it so, that NetworkManager allows, and in several cases I've had, defaults to setting default route to several interfaces at the same time? Had my fair share of problems with how 172.17.62.something interface tries to ask for a DHCP lease from 193.something network. I know I cou

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager default route

2016-03-19 Thread Sander Kuusemets
Because I /*shouldn't */have to do that. It comes as a default network management service, so it's a bit counter-intuitive to have it drop the connection every few hours. And some parts of it are actually pretty good (nmcli -p con show). -- Sander Kuusemets University of Tartu, High Performanc

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager default route

2016-03-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
How about disabling network manager and using the static ip addresses? Eero 17.3.2016 9.05 ip. "Sander Kuusemets" kirjoitti: > Hello, > > Why is it so, that NetworkManager allows, and in several cases I've had, > defaults to setting default route to several interfaces at the same time? > > Had m

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager default route

2016-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/17/2016 12:04 PM, Sander Kuusemets wrote: Why is it so, that NetworkManager allows, and in several cases I've had, defaults to setting default route to several interfaces at the same time? It does what the operators of the networks tell it to do. Had my fair share of problems with how 1

[CentOS] NetworkManager and network service

2015-11-06 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, folks, I 've created interfaces files with the NM_CONTROLLED=no statement and I've found that even after restarting network services changes are not commited. Only it worked after running nmcli connection reload restart of the network service worked. I wonder if it's either a fea

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 Jun 2015 10:30, wrote: > > I can't believe I mist that. > > Running transaction > Installeren : 1:NetworkManager-wifi-1.0.0-14.git20150121.b4ea599c.el7.x86_64 1/1 > Verifiëren : 1:NetworkManager-wifi-1.0

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-12 Thread johan . vermeulen7
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "James Hogarth" Aan: "CentOS mailing list" Verzonden: Donderdag 11 juni 2015 19:59:39 Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs On 11 Jun 2015 13:28, wrote: > > > > - Oorspronke

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-11 Thread James Hogarth
On 11 Jun 2015 13:28, wrote: > > > > - Oorspronkelijk bericht - > Van: "johan vermeulen7" > Aan: "CentOS mailing list" > Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 18:23:58 > Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 i

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-11 Thread johan . vermeulen7
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "johan vermeulen7" Aan: "CentOS mailing list" Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 18:23:58 Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "m roth" Aan: &q

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-09 Thread johan . vermeulen7
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "m roth" Aan: "CentOS mailing list" Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 16:36:40 Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:51:46AM +0200, johan.vermeu

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-09 Thread m . roth
Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:51:46AM +0200, johan.vermeul...@telenet.be > wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> on the latest installs I've done, on 2 different types of Latitude >> laptops, with 3 different wireless cars, of Centos7 and Mate desktop, >> it looks to me like NetworkManager is

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:51:46AM +0200, johan.vermeul...@telenet.be wrote: > Hello All, > > on the latest installs I've done, on 2 different types of Latitude laptops, > with 3 different wireless cars, of Centos7 and Mate desktop, > it looks to me like NetworkManager is nog managing wireless.

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-09 Thread johan . vermeulen7
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "johan vermeulen7" Aan: "CentOS mailing list" Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 11:51:46 Onderwerp: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs Hello All, on the latest installs I've done, on 2 different types o

[CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

2015-06-09 Thread johan . vermeulen7
Hello All, on the latest installs I've done, on 2 different types of Latitude laptops, with 3 different wireless cars, of Centos7 and Mate desktop, it looks to me like NetworkManager is nog managing wireless. When clicking the nm icon in the top right corner, I'm not seeing access points. W

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >> Really? That's insane. Our wired jacks are not on the same subnets >> as our access points. I'm not sure that's even possible with the >> Cisco units that have separate controllers. > > In such a network, you won’t run static IP configur

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Think 'laptop'. >>> >>> Why would you need a static IP to stick to a laptop? Or have >>> multiple NICs on one? >> >> Wired and Wi

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>> >>> What part of the breakage that NetworkManager does is good for a >>> wired, static-addressed server? >> >> If you disable NM, the network configuration GUI stops working in EL7. > >

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>> Think 'laptop'. >> >> Why would you need a static IP to stick to a laptop? Or have >> multiple NICs on one? > > Wired and WiFi. > > If you configure a static IP with the wired Ethernet pl

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > >> What part of the breakage that NetworkManager does is good for a >> wired, static-addressed server? > > If you disable NM, the network configuration GUI stops working in EL7. (I > didn’t do much with EL6, but I thought its GUI had a fall

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Think 'laptop'. > > Why would you need a static IP to stick to a laptop? Or have > multiple NICs on one? Wired and WiFi. If you configure a static IP with the wired Ethernet plugged in, you probably want that static IP to continue being use

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> Again, I’m not really after a way to make this work without NetworkManager. > > What part of the breakage that NetworkManager does is good for a > wired, static-addressed server? If you d

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:52 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Mon, December 1, 2014 16:48, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> Is there anyone who has more than a few boxes at more than one >> location who _doesn't_ have this issue? I'd like to see a FAQ or >> something by whoever designed the network confi

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > >> Have you put >> NM_CONTROLLED="no" >> in the ifcfg-eth0 script? > > How is that better than > > systemctl stop NetworkManager > systemctl disable NetworkManager > > Again, I’m not rea

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Have you put > NM_CONTROLLED="no" > in the ifcfg-eth0 script? How is that better than systemctl stop NetworkManager systemctl disable NetworkManager Again, I’m not really after a way to make this work without NetworkManager. We’ve alre

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-02 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, December 1, 2014 16:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Is there anyone who has more than a few boxes at more than one > location who _doesn't_ have this issue? I'd like to see a FAQ or > something by whoever designed the network configuration system about > how they planned for it to work (with

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-01 Thread Rob Kampen
On 12/02/2014 10:35 AM, Warren Young wrote: We ship servers to remote sites, which are rarely staffed with techs familiar with Linux. We have them tell us the static IP configuration for the box before we ship it, then we set it up for them here and ship it out to the site, where they just pl

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Nathan Duehr wrote: > >> >>> We ship servers to remote sites, which are rarely staffed with techs >>> familiar with Linux. We have them tell us the static IP configuration for >>> the box before we ship it, then we set it up for them here and ship it out >>> to

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-01 Thread Nathan Duehr
> On Dec 1, 2014, at 14:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >> We ship servers to remote sites, which are rarely staffed with techs >> familiar with Linux. We have them tell us the static IP configuration for >> the box before we ship it, then w

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Warren Young wrote: > We ship servers to remote sites, which are rarely staffed with techs familiar > with Linux. We have them tell us the static IP configuration for the box > before we ship it, then we set it up for them here and ship it out to the > site, wh

[CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

2014-12-01 Thread Warren Young
We ship servers to remote sites, which are rarely staffed with techs familiar with Linux. We have them tell us the static IP configuration for the box before we ship it, then we set it up for them here and ship it out to the site, where they just plug it in, turn it on, and walk away. That’s t

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-25 Thread Digimer
On 25/08/14 12:38 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > Em 23-08-2014 19:30, Steve Clark escreveu: >> On 08/22/2014 07:42 PM, Digimer wrote: >>> On 22/08/14 07:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer wrote: > To continue your analogy, should car companies have s

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-25 Thread Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
Em 23-08-2014 19:30, Steve Clark escreveu: > On 08/22/2014 07:42 PM, Digimer wrote: >> On 22/08/14 07:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer wrote: To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing after the 20s? I mean, the cars then g

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-08-23, Steve Clark wrote: > NetworkManager is the window's world way of doing things for people that > don't really understand > what is going on. I see no use for it immediately disable it. But it pains me > to have to take the time. If you do it often enough, you should probably creat

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread Steve Clark
On 08/22/2014 07:42 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 22/08/14 07:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer wrote: >>> To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing >>> after the 20s? I mean, the cars then got you were you needed to go, right? >> The point

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-08-23, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > The suggestion you made to switch to commercial system [sorry I brought > your suggestion one step further in the same direction, oh I'm really > tricky person] is quite in line with what commercial vendors would like to > happen to free (as free beer) comp

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, August 23, 2014 8:42 am, William Woods wrote: > You are whining about something FREE…don’t like it, don’t use it….if you > had a PAID RHEL > sub, upstream to Cent, on then bitch…..but whining about something free, > well Was I that unclear that I sounded like the one who keeps whining? I

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread William Woods
You are whining about something FREE…don’t like it, don’t use it….if you had a PAID RHEL sub, upstream to Cent, on then bitch…..but whining about something free, well On Aug 23, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Sat, August 23, 2014 5:00 am, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: >> I hate networ

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, August 23, 2014 5:00 am, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: > I hate network mangler as much as the next guy but is it really worth all > of > the whining when all it takes to disable it is: > It would be worth "whining about it" if anybody of decision makers ever listened to these complaints. As som

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-23 Thread me
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Digimer wrote: > More important with regards to the minimal install set it matches what Red Hat is doing. >>> And most of us *still* don't like it >>> >>> mark >> >> Time is ticking on... The lo

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-08-22, Bernard Lheureux wrote: > I totally agree, Les, I think RH and CentOS are really going the wrong > way since the release of that ugly version 7 !!! You can always start a NoNetworkManager SIG. --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us _

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Digimer
On 22/08/14 07:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer wrote: >>> >> To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing >> after the 20s? I mean, the cars then got you were you needed to go, right? > > The point is to abstract an interface so you can

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer wrote: > > > To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing > after the 20s? I mean, the cars then got you were you needed to go, right? The point is to abstract an interface so you can make changes behind it without breaking the thin

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Digimer
On 22/08/14 06:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:24:06PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Except that wasting time re-learning a new and strange way to do >>> something that already worked - or how to disable the new t

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 8/22/2014 3:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > It's not so much 'The' Red Hat way of doing things - although SysV > mostly had it right in the first place. But the annoying part is the > number of Red Hat "Ways' that are just arbitrarily different - like a > car company swapping the brake and gas ped

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:24:06PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Except that wasting time re-learning a new and strange way to do >> something that already worked - or how to disable the new thing so it >> doesn't break your working setup

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Bernard Lheureux
On 08/23/2014 12:24 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Except that wasting time re-learning a new and strange way to do > something that already worked - or how to disable the new thing so it > doesn't break your working setup - doesn't really put you ahead of > anything. I totally agree, Les, I think RH an

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:24:06PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Except that wasting time re-learning a new and strange way to do > something that already worked - or how to disable the new thing so it > doesn't break your working setup - doesn't really put you ahead of > anything. This is a _major

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Digimer wrote: More important with regards to the minimal install set it matches what >>> Red Hat is doing. >>> >> And most of us *still* don't like it >> >> mark > > Time is ticking on... The longer you avoid learning what is coming, the > furthe

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Digimer
On 22/08/14 06:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:58:29PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote: So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - pr

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 06:13:56PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > And most of us *still* don't like it And luckily there is a solution. Don't use CentOS-7. John -- The price we pay for money is paid in liberty. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread m . roth
John R. Dennison wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:58:29PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote: >> > So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in >> > contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - preinstalled with the NetworkManager. >> > >> > I so

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:58:29PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote: > > So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in > > contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - preinstalled with the NetworkManager. > > > > I somewhat understand its usefulnes

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote: > So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in > contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - preinstalled with the NetworkManager. > > I somewhat understand its usefulness, especially for wlan / desktops, > and its not like it really bothers m

[CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread Christof Stocker
So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - preinstalled with the NetworkManager. I somewhat understand its usefulness, especially for wlan / desktops, and its not like it really bothers me.. That being said, it seems to me with my naive li

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager substitute??

2013-10-28 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:41:59PM -0400, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nux! wrote: > > > On 28.10.2013 17:52, Fred Smith wrote: > > > I'm investigating how to setup KVM so I can run VMs without having to > > > use > > > VirtualBox or VMware, or etc. > > > > > > All the H

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager substitute??

2013-10-28 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 28.10.2013 17:52, Fred Smith wrote: > > I'm investigating how to setup KVM so I can run VMs without having to > > use > > VirtualBox or VMware, or etc. > > > > All the HOWTOs I see tell you to disable NM. > There is no reason to disable NM entire

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager substitute??

2013-10-28 Thread Nux!
On 28.10.2013 18:23, Fred Smith wrote: > thanks, I'll go take a look. As far as I can tell from all the > aforementioned HOWTOs, bridged is the way to do it?? none of 'em > says anything about doing it any other way. what am I overlooking > in my ignorance? If all you want is just to have a local

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager substitute??

2013-10-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/28/2013 11:23 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > thanks, I'll go take a look. As far as I can tell from all the > aforementioned HOWTOs, bridged is the way to do it?? none of 'em > says anything about doing it any other way. what am I overlooking > in my ignorance? bridged is appropriate if you want t

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