Bug 68127

Summary:	ifup goes through eth0 - eth7
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	limbo	CC:	fortepianissimo, rvokal, tmus, wtogami
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OS:	Linux
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Description Tammy Fox 2002-07-06 19:15:38 UTC

From /var/log/messages:

Jul  6 14:57:25 goofy network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded 
Jul  6 14:57:26 goofy network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded 
Jul  6 14:57:26 goofy ifup:  
Jul  6 14:57:26 goofy ifup: Determining IP information for eth0... 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6 
Jul  6 14:57:28 goofy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7 
Jul  6 14:57:34 goofy dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.100.254 
Jul  6 14:57:34 goofy ifup:  done. 
Jul  6 14:57:34 goofy network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded 

Is the ifup script supposed to go through all ethernet cards even if they don't
exist in the system? I don't see this on a Valhalla box.

Comment 1 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-07-07 22:43:17 UTC

Reproduced, I see this in my /var/log/messages when running ifup with dhcp.


Jul  6 12:41:17 cygnusx-1 ifup:  
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel: Partition check:
Jul  6 12:41:17 cygnusx-1 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0... 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel:  hde: hde1 hde2 hde3
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel:  hdg: hdg1
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel:  hdh: hdh1
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre10 (Mar
8, 2002)
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0d.0
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7 
Jul  6 12:41:27 cygnusx-1 kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xd800,
FA:50:FA:50:FA:50, IRQ 10.
Jul  6 12:41:19 cygnusx-1 ifup:  done.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-08 05:38:20 UTC

*** Bug 68101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2002-07-25 12:49:57 UTC

*** Bug 69786 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Thomas M Steenholdt 2002-07-31 05:48:15 UTC

This bug is still valid in RH Limbo 7.3.93

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-21 03:44:34 UTC

Woops. Fixed in initscripts-6.91-1.

Comment 6 Jay Turner 2002-08-21 16:01:30 UTC

Fix confirmed with initscripts-6.91-1.