Major networking issues with FC9

[badcat351w]

I have a FC9 setup text only, I am trying to setup an interface and 2 sub interfaces with 3 ip addresses, but I keep getting this error when bringing them up, and the interface eth0 comes up with interface eth0:0's ip address and no other interfaces come up, below is the errors I am getting, I am at very much a loss on this and tired of fighting it, help would be very much appreciated,

errors

SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCGIFADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBROADCAST: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

ifcfg-eth0

# Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=172.20.1.86
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
BROADCAST=172.20.255.255
NETWORK=172.20.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
HWADDR=00:0c:29:1b:11:9c
GATEWAY=172.20.1.1
DNS1=172.20.1.3
DNS2=172.20.1.2

ifcfg-eth0:0

# Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=172.20.1.87
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
BROADCAST=172.20.255.255
NETWORK=172.20.0.0
TYPE=Ethernet
GATEWAY=172.20.1.1
ONBOOT=yes

ifcfg-eth0:1

# Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
DEVICE=eth0:1
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=172.20.1.88
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
BROADCAST=172.20.255.255
NETWORK=172.20.0.0
TYPE=Ethernet
GATEWAY=172.20.1.1
ONBOOT=yes

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:1B:11:9C
inet addr:172.20.1.87 Bcast:172.20.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe1b:119c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1902 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:195323 (190.7 KiB) TX bytes:59608 (58.2 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x1080

eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:1B:11:9C
inet addr:172.20.1.88 Bcast:172.20.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x1080

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FA:A4:BE:91:97:53
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[bbfuller]

Hello badcat351w

Welcome to the Forum.

In Fedora 9 the default for controlling Network Cards is NetworkManager. If it is running it will prohibit what you are trying to do.

Go to "Gnome System Menu - Administration - Services" and disable it and I think you'll find you can control you cards the way you want then.

[badcat351w]

Originally Posted by bbfuller

Hello badcat351w

Welcome to the Forum.

In Fedora 9 the default for controlling Network Cards is NetworkManager. If it is running it will prohibit what you are trying to do.

Go to "Gnome System Menu - Administration - Services" and disable it and I think you'll find you can control you cards the way you want then.

is there a way to permanently disable this from the console? I have no gui installed,

[fnmblot]

chkconfig NetworkManager off

but then you will need to turn on network

chkconfig network on

[badcat351w]

That worked great, thanks very much,