NetworkManager

wikipedia:NetworkManager (2004) is a daemon that sits on top of libudev and other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces.

NetworkManager is the default tool for configuring and managing networks in RHEL 8. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/configuring_and_managing_networking/index

Configuration files:

• /etc/NetworkManager/
• /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

Server ISO	systemd-networkd	/etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml
Cloud Image	systemd-networkd	/etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml
Desktop ISO	NetworkManager	/etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml

Related terms

• Netplan (Ubuntu)
• /etc/resolv.conf

See also

• Netplan: netplan try, netplan apply, examples, networkd
• NetworkManager, nmcli, /etc/NetworkManager/