Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 83241
redhat-config-network gets confused with two interfaces on same device
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:33:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I have a setup where I have two ethernet interfaces (one for home, one for office) linked to the same ethernet device. I have set one of the interfaces to startup on boot and the other I have set to not startup on boot. Nevertheless, when I reboot, both interfaces get started and I always have to manually turn one off (otherwise connections get refused from home to a machine on the office network because it thinks it can get to office machine through ethernet connection instead of through modem). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create two ethernet interfaces both using the device /dev/eth0 (or whatever is your ethernet device) 2.set one of the interfaces to startup on boot, the other to not startup on boot 3.reboot the machine after saving configuration Actual Results: On boot, both interfaces are activated Expected Results: Only the interface that is supposed to start on boot should get started Additional info:
this is an initscript bug?
Well, r-c-n hardlinks /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<device> based on what's in the profile... if you have two devices with the same device, there's going to be problems.
This should be fixed with current initscripts that don't look in /etc/sysconfig/networking, I believe.