[lug] Fedora 16 and network alias

[dio2002 at indra.com]

> ...
>> So...how can I get the em1:0 to work without em1 dhcp config being lost?
>> The
>> syntax in the config is correct, using em1:0 and file ifcfg-em1:0...so
>> something
>> is ignoring the fact that it is an alias.
>
> i'm just going to take a guess here. my guess is it might have somethign
> to do with the fact your mixing a static and nonstatic (dhcp) address on
> the same interface.  for grins, try giving em1 a static address too and
> see if the behavior is the same.. this is totally a guess btw. :)  i'm not
> a big fan of networkmanager regardless.
> ............
>
> No difference...but I did see in some fedora docs that alias does not
> support
> the alias side being dhcp, only static. From what I found, if one
> interface
> must be dhcp, then it has to be the non-alias. In the past, with older
> fedora
> distros, I've always set the primary to dhcp and the aliases to static.

--

yeah it was a guess :)

and this is another one as it bit me awhile back: make sure you don't have
networkmanager and network services running simultaneously just to be
safe.  they might be conflicting with each other if you have both running
at the same time now that you enabled networkmanger on the interface.


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