<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">When trying to isolate targets I run systemctl isolate multi-user.target but on the systems I've tested (rhel 7.0-7.2 and Fedora 21-23) will also restart networking. It also appears that the network restart does not wait for NetworkManager-wait-online or systemd-networkd-wait-online even if I manually specify them for units in the target.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The problem is it doesn't appear the network restart honors LINKDELAY set in ifcfg-ethX files. We often find that systems switch target level and network is UP but has no ip address. Once the interface is UP it doesn't try to get an IP address and the system is in a stuck state if we were connected remotely. The only way to get out of this state is to either force a restart, go to the local console of the system (if available), or open a local tty session via the hypervisor (if the system is a VM)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Is there a way to stop network interfaces from restarting when switching targets? I haven't found a unit that defines this behavior but I don't see why this would be the case when init 3/5 never caused this behavior.</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>--<br>Justin Garrison<br></div></div></div>
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