Hi David, We may want to introduce a mechanism for installed, but not enabled configuration snippets, but we haven't quite figured it out yet. In the meantime, you can give your files a custom suffix or keep them in a sub directory, then either move or symlink to enable. This is likely how the upstream blessed mechanism will look like, rather than having a boolean inside the config files. Cheers, Tom <div class="gmail_quote">On 4 Dec 2014 16:50, "O Neill, David M" <<a href="mailto:david.m.oneill@intel.com">david.m.oneill@intel.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div> Folks, I would like to introduce a flag “enable=Boolean” in the networkd configuration files. I am introducing new features that can create a large amount of configuration. Deleting and restoring configuration can be quiet laborious Renaming the files to another extension is possibly another option This configuration will be under configuration management using tools such as chef/puppet/cfengine. Typically net-tools/networkmanager etc has such a flag and existing in the ifcfg “onboot / enabled”. Switch technology has the ability to turn on and off the port without deleting the configuration also. What do you think? Thanks </div> -------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Shannon Limited Registered in Ireland Registered Office: Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare Registered Number: 308263 Business address: Dromore House, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. </div> </blockquote></div>