odd networking issue...

[Steve Ellis]

Scott van Looy wrote:
> My network config is thus:
>
> eth0 = x.x.x.210
> eth0:1 = x.x.x.211
>
> Up until the last kernel update it's all been fine (though I don't 
> tend to reboot between kernel updates, so it might have been broken by 
> something inbetween)
>
> Now, eth0 comes up with eth0:1's IP and eth0:1 doesn't appear at all
>
> ifdown eth0 and ifup eth0 again gives me eth0:1's IP
>
> system-config-network shows it to be correctly set up with the right 
> IPs and stuff...
>
> Any known issues? Anyone heard of anything similar? Very bizarre...
>
I had to get rid of NetworkManager in order to make this work 
correctly--which was fine as my system is a server that never switches 
networks and has only static IPs.  I did not debug the issue enough to 
file a bug report however.  Hope this helps,

-se