> I tried this on a Debian system once and I had the same problem.  From
> what I can tell it doesn't like the virtual interfaces when it runs its
> network script.  On mine, I just hacked the network script to add
> 
> ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.2.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.2.254
> 
> when it gets restarted.  Then I can ifdown and ifup all I want to.

Brian-

Excuse my newbieness but what file did you edit to do this?  ifcfg-eth0?
Or did you just drop all of this in rc.local?



____________________________
Mike Neuharth
ADCS Technology Specialist
http://www.umn.edu/adcs

E-Mail		: mjn at umn.edu
Page Mail	: 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com
http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/
____________________________