Who is turning on my eth1?

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 16:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 04.07.2011, 22:13 -0700 schrieb Tony and Marilyn Ewell: 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > In Xfce 4.4.2, CentOS 5.6, 32 bit, I have a start up script
> > that turns off eth1 (/sbin/ifdown eth1).
> > 
> > Under Xfce 4.8, SL6 64 bit, eth1 is back on when Xfce settles.
> > (I can manually run the script to down eth1.)
> > 
> > Anyone have any idea who is doing this?
> 
> NetworkManager. Uncheck "Controlled by NetworkManager" in
> nm-connection-editor or add "NM_CONTROLLED=no" to the ifcfg-eth1 file.

Or instead of bypassing NM and using a dumb script to disable the
interface, you could simply set ONBOOT=NO in the same file.
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