how about creating the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
booting the box or restarting the network service will make it always
available
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Lowth" <chris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: assigning multiple ip addresses to NIC on bootupm, how?
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Or simply add the commands to /etc/rc.local
Possible, but a really bad style / practice. One should always use the
configuration paths the system offers. I.e. /etc/rc.local does not count
whether the network service is started or not, it always proceeds as
last instance during the bootup.
Alexander
Not sure about the "should always use .." - there's always an "it
depends". Sometimes (though possibly not in this case) the system provided
paths just dont offer the features a user needs/wants or do so in a
overly-complex manner.
Since the OP mentioned setting static addresses on the sub interfaces it
is likely that the main interf is also statically set, which in turn means
that the interface is more than likely to be brought up during the boot
process and would certainly be "up" by the time rc.local is executed.
Given that rc.local is always that last step in the boot process it does
(in his specific case) give a useful option.
Chris
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http://www.lowth.com/rope - scriptable IpTable packet matching rules.
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