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authorJan Macku <jamacku@redhat.com>2021-01-22 08:14:28 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-01-22 08:14:28 +0100
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doc: Documents ifcfg option LINKSTATUS
Related: #1555001 Resolves: #1916632 (cherry picked from commit 6bdeac5d349546b3d2c96b10cbdd1f9ce16ee947)
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@@ -476,6 +476,10 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
NOZEROCONF=
Set this to not set a route for dynamic link-local addresses
over this device.
+ LINKSTATUS=up|down
+ Setting LINKSTATUS to down prevents network-scripts from bringing up interface.
+ This prevents issues with interfaces like Open vSwitch bridges which uses
+ userspace datapaths. If not set defaults to up.
PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT=yes|no|1|0
Without this option, or if it is 'no'/'0', and BOOTPROTO=dhcp,
dhclient is run for the interface in "one-shot" mode; if the