On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Amitay B Isaacs wrote:
Hi all,
I have been wondering about the kernel 2.2.5 not complying with ip
alising commands given in RH 5.2. Even the 'ifconfig' command given in
/etc/rc.local file did not respond. I downloaded some updates rpm's from
redhat ftp site and installed them. After reboot my machine shows the
eth0:0. I thought It may help some one of RH5.2 family trying to use
alising.
> On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 04:50:49PM +0530, Dr. S.K. Singh wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I am not able to aliase my Intel express card in newly compiled
> > kernel ver 2.2.5 in a RH 5.2 box. When I reboot it with old kernel
> > (2.0.36) the aliasing is done.
> >
> > Under 2.2.5 the network configuration under X-Windows shows the card
> > inactive and if I activaite it its activated but after closing the window
> > when I again see the network configuration it is againd found inactive.
> > The kernel was compiled with IP aliasing.
>
> In redhat 5.2, interface aliases are initialized by ifup-aliases script in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. This executes linuxconf with --hint option
> which fails under kernel 2.2.5. So you have to configure the aliases
> manually.
>
>
> Amitay.
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>
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