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

[Martin M. <mar...@de...>]

Moin, moin, ...

Thomas Weiss <t....@sc...> wrote:

>>>"Virtual interfaces such as ifcfg-eth0:1 didn't honor ONBOOT=3Dno, =
they
>>>were always brought up with parent interface." (www.gurulabs.com)

>Mandrake 9.1 seems also to use ONPARENT. I just downloaded the=20
>initscripts-7.06-11mdk.i586.rpm and looked at=20
>./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:
>
>$>grep ONPARENT ./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases
>        [ "$ONPARENT" !=3D "no" -a "$ONPARENT" !=3D "NO" ] && =
new_interface;
>        [ "$ONPARENT" !=3D "no" -a "$ONPARENT" !=3D "NO" ] && =
new_interface;
>
>Unfortunately we have no Mandrake box in the office, so I can not make a=
=20
>real test.

As MDK is RH-based on MDK 9.1 ONPARENT is needed as well.
Just tested it.


kind regards

Martin Mewes

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