eth0 again

[Thomas Cameron]

On 07/20/2014 10:54 AM, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> Also, NetworkManager might have something to do with this, because if I 
> right-click the NW applet -> Edit Connections, I do have a connection named 
> eth0, but if I try to edit that, the device MAC address is 
> 
> 00:0c:f1:bc:29:fe (em1)
> 
> So NW somehow likes em1, despite all my efforts. If I stop and disable NW, 
> then the network does not even start upon boot, as it should. How do I tell 
> NW to leave my network alone and still have the network start upon boot?

If you disable NM, you need to enable network. From a local console (in
other words, don't do this over a network session like ssh):

systemctl disable NetworkManager.service
systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
systemctl enable network
systemctl start network

Thomas