Network services start before ethernet devices are up in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

NetworkManager

Network Manager gets started, but before the ethernet interfaces can get IP addresses, services that rely on a network connection are started. Problem seen with LDAP and autofs which relies on LDAP for the maps, so nothing gets automounted.

What's the equivalent NETWORKDELAY in RHEL 6

Add "NETWORKWAIT=yes" to ​<code>​/etc/sysconfig/network​</code>​ to block until the interfaces have addresses for NetworkManager.

As per ​<code>​/etc/init.d/NetworkManager​</code>​

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