[NTLUG:Discuss] Ethernet Not Working On Boot - Solved -- Question to Red Hat / Fedora

[Stuart Johnston]

Just FYI, I have the same complaint about Ubuntu.

On 02/05/2011 08:23 PM, Dennis Rice wrote:
> On a followup to my previous request for help on the Ethernet interface
> not coming up during the boot process, one of my students gave me the
> reason and the problem has been solved - but not to my satisfaction.
>
> I had previously configured the interface to work using Network
> Configurator, not Network Manager. It appears that when Fedora boots, it
> looks t the Network Manager to see if the interface is to be configured.
> Since that app has been disabled, Fedora ignores the standard network
> files and does not activate the interface.
>
> I wish to direct this to the Red Hat / Fedora staff that read this list.
> WHY is the boot process looking at the Network Manager rather than the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file, and the other network
> files for bringing up the network? If it is not used, why are you even
> waisting everyones time and effort. I have observed that if the user
> changes hardware, as is done in a classroom environment, that a new
> ifcfg-ethX file is NOT created, but someplace deeply hidden the data is
> maintained. What standards are we working against?
>
> These are issues that make the system difficult to comprehend and teach.
> You want users to know how to administer the system, yet it is not being
> maintained in a consistent manner and appears, at least to my usage and
> teaching, to not conform to the standard operating practices.
>
> I am not a software engineer, rather a telecommunications engineer that
> goes out to make things work. These changes are not supporting the
> requirements to know how the system operates, rather they are keeping
> things hidden in the background. Please show a reasoning to the changes
> and how one can track the system operation.
>
> Dennis
>
>
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