Network services start before ethernet devices are up in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Issue

  • Network Manager gets started, but before the ethernet interfaces can get IP addresses, services that rely on a network connection are started. Problem seen with LDAP and autofs which relies on LDAP for the maps, so nothing gets automounted.

  • What's the equivalent NETWORKDELAY in RHEL 6

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • NetworkManager

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