Re: [webmin-devel] redhat 9 virtual network interfaces

[Thomas W. <t....@sc...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:54, Thomas Weiss wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I think there is a little bug in the network module for redhat?
>>
>>Redhat 9:
>>To activate or deactivate virtual interfaces at boot time, RH uses the
>>variable ONPARENT and not on ONBOOT (ONBOOT is used only for "real" 
>>interfaces).
>>
>>Redhat <9:
>>"Virtual interfaces such as ifcfg-eth0:1 didn't honor ONBOOT=no, they
>>were always brought up with parent interface." (www.gurulabs.com)
>>
>>Have a look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases and
>>http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html.
>>
>>I tried to fix it for RH-9. (For RH < 9 can_edit has also to be fixed?)
>>Perhaps the patch is useful for others too.
> 
> 
> Thanks for that patch - I will fix webmin in the next release to set
> ONPARENT for redhat versions 9 and above. Do you know if any other
> recent distributions (like Mandrake 9.1) have also incorporated the same
> change?
> 
>  - Jamie

Mandrake 9.1 seems also to use ONPARENT. I just downloaded the 
initscripts-7.06-11mdk.i586.rpm and looked at 
./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:

$>grep ONPARENT ./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases
        [ "$ONPARENT" != "no" -a "$ONPARENT" != "NO" ] && new_interface;
        [ "$ONPARENT" != "no" -a "$ONPARENT" != "NO" ] && new_interface;

Unfortunately we have no Mandrake box in the office, so I can not make a 
real test.

theo
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