Fedora DHCP

I installed Fedora in a virtual machine to play with Fedora Directory Server since it would be more recent than RHEL or CentOS. I noticed post install that I could not stop pulling an IP address from DHCP despite setting up the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file to be static. After a quick search I found that Fedora is using the NetworkManager to handle the networking before anything else so to fix this issue you need to disable NetworkManager and enable plain old network.

chkconfig NetworkManager off
chkconfig --levels 2345 network on
/etc/init.d/network restart

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