Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5976
/sbin/ifup cannot bring up virtual host interfaces (eth0:0)
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:10:30 EDT
[root@goliath /root]# /sbin/ifup eth0:0 SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device 192.168.2.252: unknown interface: No such device Usage: inet_route [-vF] del {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M] [[dev] If] inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M] [netmask N] [mss Mss] [window W] [irtt I] [mod] [dyn] [reinstate] [[dev] If] inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [metric M] reject inet_route [-FC] flush NOT supported usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases <net-device> usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes <net-device>
What does ifcfg-eth0:0 look like?
Here is some script output indicative of the problem. If you scan through it you will notice that nowhere does the DEVICE variable ever get set. This, in turn, causes the DEVICETYPE and REALDEVICE variables to be null..... resulting chaos insues. Script started on Fri Oct 15 17:56:09 1999 [root@hudson network-scripts]# set -x [root@hudson network-scripts]# . /sbin/ifup eth0:0 + . /sbin/ifup eth0:0 ++ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin ++ cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ++ . network-functions ++ need_hostname +++ hostname +++ hostname +++ hostname ++ [ hudson.wild.prv = (none) -o hudson.wild.prv = localhost -o hudson.wild.prv = localhost.localdomain ] ++ unset NEEDHOSTNAME ++ CONFIG=eth0:0 ++ [ -z eth0:0 ] ++ [ -f eth0:0 ] ++ CONFIG=ifcfg-eth0:0 ++ [ -f ifcfg-eth0:0 ] ++ [ 0 != 0 ] ++ source_config +++ basename ifcfg-eth0:0 +++ sed s/^ifcfg-//g ++ DEVNAME=eth0:0 ++ basename ifcfg-eth0:0 ++ grep [^g]- ++ . ifcfg-eth0:0 +++ IPADDR=192.168.2.254 +++ NETMASK=255.255.0.0 ++ [ foo = fooboot -a = no ] ++ IPSETUP=no +++ echo +++ sed s/[0-9]*$// ++ DEVICETYPE= +++ echo +++ sed s/:.*//g ++ REALDEVICE= ++ echo ++ grep -q : ++ ISALIAS=no ++ [ = yes ] ++ [ = bootp -o = dhcp ] ++ OTHERSCRIPT=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup- ++ [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup- ] ++ /sbin/ifconfig ++ grep -s not found ++ [ 1 = 0 ] ++ [ = yes -a no = no -a != -a -x /sbin/ifenslave ] ++ [ -n ] ++ [ -n ] ++ [ -z 255.255.0.0 ] ++ [ -z ] +++ /bin/ipcalc --broadcast 192.168.2.254 255.255.0.0 ++ eval BROADCAST=192.168.255.255 +++ BROADCAST=192.168.255.255 ++ [ -z ] +++ /bin/ipcalc --network 192.168.2.254 255.255.0.0 ++ eval NETWORK=192.168.0.0 +++ NETWORK=192.168.0.0 ++ ifconfig 192.168.2.254 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255 SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device 192.168.2.254: unknown interface: No such device ++ [ no = no ] +++ route -n +++ sed s/ .*// +++ grep 192.168.0.0 ++ [ -z 192.168.0.0 ] ++ route add -host 192.168.2.254 SIOCADDRT: No such device ++ [ != -a != none ] ++ . /etc/sysconfig/network +++ NETWORKING=yes +++ FORWARD_IPV4=no +++ HOSTNAME=hudson.wild.prv +++ GATEWAY=192.168.2.51 +++ GATEWAYDEV=eth0 ++ [ 192.168.2.51 != ] ++ [ eth0 = -o eth0 = ] ++ [ = yes ] ++ exec /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post ifcfg-eth0:0 usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases <net-device> usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes <net-device> Script done on Fri Oct 15 17:56:20 1999
Had the same problem. ifcfg-eth0:0 says: IPADDR="10.200.7.44" NETMASK="255.255.0.0"
Yup, it's a bug with the 6.1 initscripts. It's fixed in the latest initscripts package in Raw Hide. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5784 ***