Bug 146241

Summary: Virtual interfaces such as ifcfg-eth0:1 do not honor ONBOOT=no
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Marc Andre Luthi <marc-andre.luthi>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description Marc Andre Luthi 2005-01-26 11:46:19 UTC
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Description of problem:
My virtual interfaces ifcfg-eth1:1 do not honor ONBOOT=no.

With the next config, after a servive network restart eth1:1  is up


# cat ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=128.178.156.52
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=128.178.156.1

cat ifcfg-eth1:1
DEVICE=eth1:1
ONBOOT=NO
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=128.178.156.109
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
HWADDR=00:0C:F1:D6:38:19


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.31.18.EL-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure an ethX:X with ONBOOT=no
2. service network restart
3. ifconfig 
    

Actual Results:  Device ethX:X is up 

Expected Results:  Device is down

Additional info:

I found a similare problem at 

http://lists.swelltech.com/pipermail/webmin-devel-archive/2003-September/001033.html

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-01-26 21:39:43 UTC
They use the (admittedly, not well documented) ONPARENT=(yes|no)