Bug 490059

Summary:	ONBOOT=no does NOT work for aliased network interfaces
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rick Stevens <rps2>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Rick Stevens 2009-03-13 02:16:12 UTC

Description of problem:

The networking scripts (specifically /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth) do not pay attention to the "ONBOOT=" flag of an ifcfg-ethx:y file.  Essentially, if the parent device comes up, ALL aliases for it also come up.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All versions of RHEL 4.x and up and all Fedora releases

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create an alias for eth0, (e.g. eth0:0)
2. Set the "ONBOOT=" flag to "no" for the alias ONLY
3. Restart the network
  
Actual results:

Both eth0 and eth0:0 will be up and running

Expected results:

eth0 comes up but eth0:0 doesn't

Additional info:

Comment 1 Radek Vokál 2009-03-13 08:14:55 UTC

Reassigning to initscripts.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2009-03-21 00:33:48 UTC

For aliases, use ONPARENT. This should be documented in sysconfig.txt.