odd networking issue...

[Scott van Looy]

On Apr 6 Steve Ellis did spake thusly:

> 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,

Marve! That worked, thanks.

Though NetworkManager could probably do with *not* removing your 
interfaces in a girly strop when you remove it. Irritating...

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