After boot, why do I need to restart networking to bring my network interfaces online?
Issue
- When booting a system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the system will be unable to connect to the network or obtain an IP address until the interface is restarted either by a
service network restartorifup ethX, where X is equivalent to the number of the interface.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Manually managed network switch
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