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Description of problem: Some applications, such as autofs, need the network to be available when they start. If the interface isn't available these applications can experience problems. I've tried a couple of times to add a retry on fail mechanism to autofs but ran into odd problems both times. This approach seems to be unnecessary anyway since the NetworkManager init script has the ability to wait for this completion anyway. Could the NetworkManager init script wait for interfaces to complete initialization by default? What would be the downside of such a change? Ian
Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Setting NETWORKWAIT=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network will activate this behavior. If this does not work, please re-open this bug so we can diagnose.
(In reply to comment #3) > Setting NETWORKWAIT=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network will activate this behavior. > If this does not work, please re-open this bug so we can diagnose. I know that. The reason for the bug is the steady stream of bugs that I get because of this. That's why I posed the questions above which I'd like answered. I'd also like some suggestions as to what we can do to work around this constant problem.