Making interface persist across reboot

[paulj_j]

Hi
New to Fedora and running fc10 in a vmware setup
Added /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 to create another interface and all works fine (IPADDR=10.99.56.98).
Would you expect this to be available after a reboot, last reboot I had to run
ifup eth0:0

Regards Paul

[NomadRetsif]

In your ifcfg-eth0:0 file do you have the line:

ONBOOT=yes

[paulj_j]

[paulj@HumProxy ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
# Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
DEVICE=eth0:0
ONBOOT=yes
#HWADDR=00:0c:29:cf:0e:c3
IPADDR=10.99.56.98
SEARCH="Humanities.Manchester.ac.uk"
BOOTPROTO=none
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
ONPARENT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
[paulj@HumProxy ~]$


However I still have to manually start it with an ifup eth0:0
What surprises me is that looking in Network Device Control I see no devices

Many Thanks Paul

[paulj_j]

Added to rc.local

[paulj@HumProxy ~]$ cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/sbin/ifup eth0:0
/sbin/service httpd start
/sbin/service squid start


That works but seems quite old fashioned :-)
Anyone better suggestions?

Paul

[NomadRetsif]

Your solution is one way to do it. I am curious, the eth0:0 designation is used for IP address aliasing. If you had two NICs in your system (physical or virtual) I would expect to see eth0 and eth1 as the devices. Did you add a second virtual ethernet device in your virtual machine before booting or did you just add the network device within your Linux installation?

[paulj_j]

To be honest I was just doing it the way I was told to do!
I've been moved into a Linux role previously always having worked with Solaris and before that SunOS and AIX.
Not played with Linux since about 1995 (Slackware) and my boss is very keen on we do everything in a consistent way my predecessor seems to have done things in an idiosyncratic fashion!
Thanks for your help anyway.
Paul

[demon1981]

Originally Posted by paulj_j

Added /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 to create another interface

You add interface by adding file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and nothing else? Or adding interface require somthing other steps?

[paulj_j]

Yes that's all I did