Gateway settings in both /etc/networks and the ifcfg files cause packet loss
Issue
- In RHEL 7 using
NetworkManager, having aGATEWAY=defined in both the/etc/networksfile and any/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-file will create duplicate gateway entries, causing packet loss to occur.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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