Description of Problem: On Dell I7000 laptop with Dynalink L10C pccard ethernet adapter attached to Linksys router via hub using dhcpcd I experience bug 61705. I also use an alias eth0:1 for my home network. As is known after booting 'ifup eth0' brings up eth0 + eth0:1 + dhcpcd. However 'ifconfig eth0 up' only brings up eth0 but not eth0:1 And 'ifconfig eth0:1' does not work at all, it does nothing with error message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested adress". (of course ifconfig does not start dhcpcd). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): net-tools-1.60-3 How Reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. bug 61705 exist for laptop after configuration of networking eth0 + eth0:1 + dhcpcd 2. boot laptop 3. do '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up' and '/sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 up' Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
ifconfig is the raw device manipulation tool; it doesn't handle associated aliases like that. Use ifup instead.