On Jun 8, 2011, at 17:17 , Alec T. Habig wrote: > Lamar Owen writes: >> I'm assuming you filed a bugzilla upstream? Also, in your ifcfg-ethX >> files you have the ability (that is fully documented in upstream's >> documentation) to tell NM to not manage a particular interface, but >> just pull it up. It's just a matter of learning a newer way of doing >> things. > > The big problem with this is that even if you do this, NM returns "ok" > to the startup sequence well before it actually gets around to bringing > up your network(*) - then things like autofs and nis fall over.
There's a NETWORKWAIT variable, documented in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt. Shouldn't it help to set this to yes? NB no, I'm not using NM either. - Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
