Greetings fedora-list! I'm trying to add another IP address to one of my machines running FC11 and have run in to a difficult problem. I'm used to simply copying a working ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0:1, changing DEVICE, NAME, and IPADDR and it works as expected. Not this time around.. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none DNS1=69.58.0.4 GATEWAY=69.58.21.129 HWADDR=00:10:4B:95:A1:99 IPADDR=69.58.21.130 NETMASK=255.255.255.240 ONBOOT=yes ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off" TYPE=Ethernet /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 DEVICE=eth0:1 NAME=eth0:1 IPADDR=69.58.21.135 NETMASK=255.255.255.240 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet After editing the file I run "ifup eth0:1" and it's bound as expected. Running "ip addr" confirms this.. 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:10:4b:95:a1:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 69.58.21.130/28 brd 69.58.21.143 scope global eth0 inet 69.58.21.135/28 brd 69.58.21.143 scope global secondary eth0:1 inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe95:a199/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever But when I reboot things go wonky. I can only access it via the new aliased IP address, and when I do the output of "ip addr" shows it's bound to eth0 and there is no mention of any aliases. 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:10:4b:95:a1:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 69.58.21.135/28 brd 69.58.21.143 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe95:a199/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever So I run "ifup eth0" and it responds with.. SIOCGIFADDR: Cannot assign requested address SIOCSIFBROADCAST: Cannot assign requested address SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address .. and now "ip addr" reports: 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:10:4b:95:a1:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 69.58.21.135/28 brd 69.58.21.143 scope global eth0 inet 69.58.21.130/28 brd 69.58.21.143 scope global secondary eth0 inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe95:a199/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever .. so I try "service network restart" to see what happens. Things stay the same - both IP addresses are bound to eth0 and are working as expected, but still no mention of eth0:1. It gets even stranger as when I "mv ifcfg-eth0:1 tmp-eth0" within a few seconds the second IP address stops responding, as if some daemon is watching that file and drops the interface as soon as it's removed. The output of "ip addr" confirms this: 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:10:4b:95:a1:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 69.58.21.130/28 brd 69.58.21.143 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe95:a199/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever I'm at a complete loss as to why it's behaving this way. Any ideas? Thanks, Tom Howell-Cintron -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines