NetworkManager vs network service
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Ever since NetworkManager showed up I have been disabling it and enabling network service. Can't do that now or at least not the way I have in the past with ifcfg scripts an tweaking udev conf rules. None of this seems to work now or be available in NST. I'm primarily a Centos kind of ixer and have not been tracking the evolution of NetworkManager but last I read about it made me think it was good for laptops but not so good for a static type of setup like server, firewall etc. I would like to use the network service instead of NM so how should I proceed?
Starting with Fedora 15 (which NST is based off of) Service control is now performed by systemd. So to do what you want use the following:
systemctl disable NetworkManager.service;
systemctl enable network.service;
Make sure you configure you interfaces that you want enabled in directory: "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts".
Reboot and the network service will be in control of configuring your network interfaces and NetworkManager will be disabled…
--RWH