Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 99289
Error in help documentation
Last modified: 2014-08-04 18:14:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: ile:///usr/share/redhat-config-network//help/network-aliases.html specifies that you " If you are configuring an Ethernet device to have an alias, neither the device nor the alias can be configured to use DHCP. " (this is actually stated in 2 places on this page). This is simply not true. if the primary device (e.g. eth0) is configured w/ DHCP, there is absolutely nothing incorrect, or wrong, with configuring the alias as a static IP number. It works as one would expect it to work. At best, the language should state that when selecting a static IP, one should not choose an IP that the dhcp server has domain over (and might assign to another network card on the same network), but that applies universally to selecting static IP address, not just specificly to setting up an alias IP address. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run redhat-config-network 2. click help 3. click "Device Aliases" (last entry in ToC) Actual Results: incorrect documentation Expected Results: accurate documentation Additional info: Have not checked alpha yet. Will do so towards the weekend.
When I wrote the docs, assigning either device with DHCP did not work when one was an alias. Perhaps it has changed, but it needs to be tested again before the documentation changes. I do not maintain this document anymore, so I am reassigning to John so it can be fixed.