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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I miss network-scripts. So much
easier. But, yeah, nm-cli mostly. Sometimes editing the backing
config files on disk directly. They're still config files, just
much less accessible.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Warm Regards,<br>
Kyle Maas</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/16/25 4:57 PM, Grand Rapids Linux
Users Group wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Hey all!</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Just a
general question for those managing Linux servers - what has
your experience been with NetworkManager in the server
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I'm running AlmaLinux (RHEL clone) as our primary OS and just
recently started transitioning to Alma 9, where the old
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ifcfg files are supposedly
depreciated and networking *should* be done through
NetworkManager. I haven't had any issue for generic VM guests
with simple IP assignments, but anything more complex just
seems to get increasingly tedious. For example,
bonded-vlan-bridge interfaces with policy based routing has
become massive scripting project in Puppet & Ansible.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">I see a
few projects exist to restore some of the original config
capability, like the NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules
package, and I know there's a way to use keyfiles to generate
NM connections but, is anyone using them or are you running
nmcli commands? Or ditching NM altogether and restoring
systemd-network where possible?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks!</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Scott
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Sys Admin<br>
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