A systemd service sometimes failed to start with network connectivity problem on system boot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Issue

  • A service requiring another network service (DNS, SSH, remote File Service, and so on) failed to start with network connectivity issue.
  • How to ensure that the network initialization completed before starting those services.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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