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Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Tue Oct 6 20:07:06 UTC 2015


On 10/06/2015 12:36 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 10/06/15 15:05, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>> too bad you weren't here yesterday ...
>>
>> Rick gave a reasonable response.  Could have been improved to not
>> interfere with regular network access, but I thought it was good enough.
> .
>
> Yes. Initially I could not get the NM GUI to respond to my entries.
> After I edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s25 I was able
> to configure it. Perhaps adding NM_CONTROLLED=yes made the difference? I
> just wanted my problem fixed and did not experiment beyond that.
> Restored the original file when done ...

"NM_CONTROLLED=yes" indicates that, yes, that device is controlled via
Network Manager (and therefore modifiable via the GUI). If that's
missing or set to "no", then the device is controlled via the settings
in the ifcfg-<devicename> file.
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