No. Network Manager is always disabled on our builds since at least Cent5 days. The network stack has always been able to be managed properly without relying on Network Manager. Is that now an absolute requirement? It never has been prior. On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:26 PM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Have you tried to use NetworkManager ? > After all ,anything network related should be done by it. > > [root@system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy > Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89) successfully added. > > [root@system ~]# reboot > Shared connection to glustera closed. > > > [root@system ~]# uptime > 03:23:44 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 1,57, 0,48, 0,17 > [root@glustera ~]# nmcli connection show > NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE > dummy0 9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89 dummy dummy0 > > > [root@system ~]# ip a s dummy0 > 3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 > link/ether ce:c9:83:97:10:ee brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet6 fe80::599:a978:9457:df10/64 scope link noprefixroute > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > P.S.: This is the first time I hear about dummy interfaces. What are those used for ? > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > > > > В вторник, 27 октомври 2020 г., 02:42:06 Гринуич+2, Frank Even <lists+centos.org@xxxxxxxxxxxx> написа: > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas? It's rather annoying that I can't get these to > persist across reboots without using some kind of helper script. > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:37 AM Frank Even > <lists+centos.org@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello all, hoping someone can help me out here. > > > > I cannot get dummy interfaces on a new Cent8 build to persist across reboots. > > > > On Cent7 - this is the process I use: > > > > Create Dummies: > > # cat /etc/modules-load.d/dummy.conf > > dummy > > # cat /etc/modprobe.d/dummyopts.conf > > options dummy numdummies=4 > > # ip link add dummy0 type dummy > > ## - repeating a/ ascending dummyN adapters for as many needed > > # service network start > > # dracut -f > > > > Now this was different than even how 6 handled it, forget how I > > finally dug that up (possible I even asked here). I've applied this > > same configuration to a Cent8 box I'm trying to stand up and it all > > appears to work fine, but unlike the Cent7 boxes, when the Cent8 box > > comes back up, all the dummy adapters are missing. I've been > > searching all over trying to find some documentation on this to no > > avail. I'm hoping someone has some suggestions here to help out. > > > > Thanks, > > Frank > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos