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

[Wayne Walker]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 08:23:40PM -0600, 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.

chkconfig --list network
chkconfig network on
chkconfig --list network

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