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Bug 155497

Summary:	interfaces aliases with ONBOOT=no are brought up anyway
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Cove Schneider <cove>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	perisse, rvokal
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Description Cove Schneider 2005-04-20 21:01:33 UTC

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Description of problem:
ONBOOT=no is ignored on eth0:x interface aliases. If you have ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth0:0, where 
ifcfg-eth0:0 has ONBOOT=no set, eth0:0 is brought up anyway at boot.

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

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
2. Change the IP address in ifcfg-eth0:0 and set ONBOOT=no
3. Reboot machine
  

Actual Results:  Interface eth0:0 is brought up after boot.

Expected Results:  Interface eth0:0 should be down after boot.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-04-20 21:06:46 UTC

Alias interfaces are controlled by ONPARENT, not ONBOOT.

This is documented in sysconfig.txt as of 7.31.11.EL-1 and later.

Comment 2 Cove Schneider 2005-04-20 21:24:04 UTC

Oh, I see. Sorry for misunderstanding your previous note. IMHO, it may be help for busy admins to have 
ONBOOT also work for interface alias, rather silently ignoring it. Unfortunately I had a service outage 
today due to thinking that ONBOOT would work in an alias file. I didn't know to look in /usr/share/doc/
initscripts-7.31.18.EL/sysconfig.txt.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-01-27 20:19:03 UTC

*** Bug 179065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***