[ovs-dev] Initial set-up with Fedora 17 lost connectivity

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:24:53AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> The recipe above is working around the network initscripts lack of DHCP
> support (I'll fix that in Fedora).  It's also being careful to not
> trigger NetworkManager (hence ip link set em1 up instead of something
> like ifconfig em1 0.0.0.0 up).
> 
> So, this is a temporary workaround for lack of DHCP support (the
> upstream initscripts should fix this, which I'll test and apply to
> Fedora's package).

I don't know whether these are the initscripts you're talking about,
but do you/Fedora/RH have a position on what we call "Red Hat network
scripts integration" (described in rhel/README.RHEL)?  e.g. are they
useful/harmful/indifferent?

Thanks,

Ben.