From d5b06e5e65230519f2e7d50741bbcdc9c2fbd5e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Macku Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:14:28 +0100 Subject: doc: Documents ifcfg option LINKSTATUS Related: #1555001 Resolves: #1916632 (cherry picked from commit 6bdeac5d349546b3d2c96b10cbdd1f9ce16ee947) --- doc/sysconfig.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/sysconfig.txt b/doc/sysconfig.txt index d6f6e719..41da61eb 100644 --- a/doc/sysconfig.txt +++ b/doc/sysconfig.txt @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.1