Bug 65371

Summary:	Virtual eth0:0 interface goes down frequently
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <yodermk>
Component:	net-tools	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2002-05-22 20:10:56 UTC

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Description of problem:
Have a 3Com ethernet card with two interfaces - an eth0 assigned with pump and
an eth0:0 assigned with ifconfig.  It is used for masquerading.  After a
seemingly random amount of time, as little as an hour, the eth0:0 interface will
simply disappear.  ifconfig will not show it, and masquerading stops working
until I run the ifconfig command to bring it up again.


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


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.2
2. wait a while
3. 
	

Actual Results:  eventually /sbin/ifconfig will cease to show the interface and
masquerading stops working.

Expected Results:  eth0:0 should have remained up.

Additional info:

It was upgraded from 7.2, where it worked fine.  None of my firewall or
masquerading scripts have changed.

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2003-05-23 08:57:00 UTC

Does this still happen on newer releases (RH 8 or 9)? I haven't been able to
reproduce this bug myself, thats why i'm asking.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2003-06-27 10:27:55 UTC

Actually, this sounds like you manually ifconfig the eth0:0 interface and not
with the ifcfg-eth0:0 in the network-scripts directory. This could be the source
of the problem as pump will simply reinit eth0 and the system doesn't know about
your eth0:0 at all.

Also i newer releases we use a different dhcp client, so that might help, too.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2004-02-02 14:34:53 UTC

No more info, can't reproduce, closing as works for me.

Read ya, Phil