How to disable NetworkManager in RHEL 8 ?

How to disable NetworkManager in RHEL 8 ?

环境

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8

问题

What steps are needed to disable the NetworkManager service?

决议

At first, please note that the old networks-scripts have been deprecated and are not the defaults anymore.

• ifup belongs to the NetworkManager package by default.

  Raw

  # readlink $(which ifup)
  /etc/alternatives/ifup
  
  # readlink $(readlink $(which ifup))
  /usr/libexec/nm-ifup
  

• You can change this behaviour by installing the package below. After that, the ifcfg configurations will be handled by the network.service

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  # yum install network-scripts
  
  # readlink $(readlink $(which ifup))
  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
  

• Be aware that you'll get a warning on deprecation:

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  # ifup ens3
  WARN      : [ifup] You are using 'ifup' script provided by 'network-scripts', which are now deprecated.
  WARN      : [ifup] 'network-scripts' will be removed in one of the next major releases of RHEL.
  WARN      : [ifup] It is advised to switch to 'NetworkManager' instead - it provides 'ifup/ifdown' scripts as well.
  

• If you are annoyed by this warning, you can disable them at your own risk:

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  # touch /etc/sysconfig/disable-deprecation-warnings
  

• After that, you should be able to do the same configuration as on your RHEL 7:

  • Stop and disable the NetworkManager

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  # systemctl stop NetworkManager
  # systemctl disable NetworkManager
  

  • Add the NM_CONTROLLED="no" parameter to your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<DEV> files to ensure that NetworkManager won't handle your device, where <DEV> is your network interface card (e.g. eth0, ens3, enp2s0f0, ...).

  • Use the network.service instead of NetworkManager.service. For example:

  Raw

  # systemctl status network