Description of problem: RHEL4 does not support the ONBOOT for IP aliases. The setting of ONBOOT=no in an alias config file (for example ifcfg-eth0:0) is ignored during boot time. This control is important for HA NFS. How reproducible: Set the option ONBOOT=no in an IP alias file like ifcfg-eth0:0. reboot the machine or just run 'ifup eth0 boot' and using ifconfig you can see that the eth0:0 is up. Attached is a possible fix.
Created attachment 143432 [details] just check for ONBOOT even for aliases
does anyone at redhat monitor this bugzilla ?
Having tried to do the same thing I think I found the answer. Just double checked this on EL4,EL5 and FC2... I think you're using the wrong variable, couldn't find the following in the docs, but stumbled across it in the script ONPARENT=no seems to do the job. Non-obvious, but the docs for the ifcfg-<dev> scripts do seem a little lacking. Apparently we're not supposed to modify them by hand and use the guis instead.
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