From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-3.1 i686) Description of problem: ifup/ifdown fail to manage interface eth0:1 properly. Using ifup/ifdown on eth0 alone will manage both eth0 AND eth0:1 at once. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 and reboot 2. try ifdown eth0:1 3. try ifup eth0:1 Actual Results: [root@ginger network-scripts]# ifdown eth0:1 Cannot find device "eth0:1" [root@ginger network-scripts]# ifup eth0:1 Device "eth0:1" does not exist. Cannot find device "eth0:1" Error adding address 129.26.248.75 for eth0:1. WARNING: interface is ignored: No such device bind: Cannot assign requested address SIOCADDRT: No such device Expected Results: ifup/down should manage eth0:1 independently from eth0 and both should work as they did in earlier releases. Additional info:
What do your ifcfg-eth* look like?
The contents of the ifcfg-eth* is listed on the page reachable via the URL along with a detailed log of what happens during ifup/ifdown. Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=10.13.255.255 IPADDR=10.13.7.1 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=10.13.0.0 ONBOOT=yes Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 is DEVICE=eth0:1 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=129.26.248.79 NETWORK=129.26.248.72 NETMASK=255.255.255.248 IPADDR=129.26.248.75 ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no
Problem perhaps is that /sbin/ip should look for interfaces under 'eth0' not as 'eth0:X' itself. A line is like: 6: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:02:b3:1a:e2:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 193.94.160.1/24 brd 193.94.160.255 scope global eth0 inet 193.94.160.2/24 brd 193.94.160.255 scope global secondary eth0:0 where with old ifconfig, this would have been interface eth0:0..
Will be fixed in 6.37-1. relevant diff attached.
Created attachment 30774 [details] fixes for alias support