Bug 1398042

Summary:	systemctl start network.service and or service network restart
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	jnikolak
Component:	doc-Networking_Guide	Assignee:	Mirek Jahoda <mjahoda>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Description jnikolak 2016-11-24 00:08:59 UTC

Document URL: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/Networking_Guide/#sec-Network_Configuration_Using_sysconfig_Files

Describe the issue: 
If customer using NetworkManager to handle the network interface.

running older command such as 

service network.restart and or/
systemctl network.service 

will cause conflict as both services will be running.


Can we confirm if having both 
network.service and network.manager running will not cause any conflicts.
From what I understand it has been known to cause issues in the past before.

One item that seems to be missing from the documentation is 

networkmanager-wait-online 

This service appears to be required for the network to allocate ip's from my test.
Can we have some more information about that.

Comment 2 jnikolak 2016-12-22 00:36:01 UTC

there was a misunderstanding on my part, where service network restart and systemctl restart network.service are legacy commands that will restart interfaces that are not connected with Network manager.

service network restart and systemctl restart network.service can work in conjuction with NM and shouldn't cause any conflict.
If there is a conflict it needs to be troubleshooted per basis

This bugzilla can be closed after understanding this concept.