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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: Have a 3Com ethernet card with two interfaces - an eth0 assigned with pump and an eth0:0 assigned with ifconfig. It is used for masquerading. After a seemingly random amount of time, as little as an hour, the eth0:0 interface will simply disappear. ifconfig will not show it, and masquerading stops working until I run the ifconfig command to bring it up again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.2 2. wait a while 3. Actual Results: eventually /sbin/ifconfig will cease to show the interface and masquerading stops working. Expected Results: eth0:0 should have remained up. Additional info: It was upgraded from 7.2, where it worked fine. None of my firewall or masquerading scripts have changed.
Does this still happen on newer releases (RH 8 or 9)? I haven't been able to reproduce this bug myself, thats why i'm asking. Read ya, Phil
Actually, this sounds like you manually ifconfig the eth0:0 interface and not with the ifcfg-eth0:0 in the network-scripts directory. This could be the source of the problem as pump will simply reinit eth0 and the system doesn't know about your eth0:0 at all. Also i newer releases we use a different dhcp client, so that might help, too. Read ya, Phil
No more info, can't reproduce, closing as works for me. Read ya, Phil