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

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 19:33, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Moin, moin, ...
> 
> Thomas Weiss <t....@sc...> wrote:
> 
> >>>"Virtual interfaces such as ifcfg-eth0:1 didn't honor ONBOOT=no, they
> >>>were always brought up with parent interface." (www.gurulabs.com)
> 
> >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.
> 
> As MDK is RH-based on MDK 9.1 ONPARENT is needed as well.
> Just tested it.

Thanks for the info. However, I've decided to have webmin always set
ONPARENT for virtual interfaces, regardless of the OS. Older versions of
redhat will just ignore it, so there is no harm done..

And when it comes to detecting if a virtual interface will be brought up
at boot time, webmin will use ONPARENT if it exists, or ONBOOT
otherwise. Again, this should work for both old a new versions of Redhat
and Mandrake.

 - Jamie