Just for kicks does it work if you use eth0:1 instead of eth0:0?
I've seen some strange things to lead me to believe that eth0:0
is somehow similar to eth0 and that the *first* vitual interface
should actually be eth0:1. Worth a shot at least....


At 10:54 AM 11/28/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>
>> 
>> I am having some problems with an alias configuration on the primary
>> interface of another box I am looking after (I did not build it).  I have
>> noticed a couple of weird things over the last couple of days and I don't
>> know what to make of it.
>> 
>> I noticed Monday morning, after a still unexplained reboot, that the alias
>> on the primary interface did not come back up on its own.  I think I
>> solved this by adding the ONBOOT token to
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
>> 
>> The problem which remains is that when i do `ifup eth0:0' I get:
>> 
>> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
>> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
>> 160.94.101.75: unknown interface: No such device
>> SIOCADDRT: No such device
>> usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases <net-device>
>> usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes <net-device>
>> 
>> 
>> Any auggestions?  The primary, which is configured similarly, comes up
>> without issue...Should i not be using ifup to initialize this interface?
>> 
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