[CentOS] Cannot set alias IP address

[Nikolaos Milas]

On 18/6/2012 12:06 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote:

> Why doesn't it run correctly when run from
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1?

In /var/log/messages I see:

Jun 18 14:38:58 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]:    ifcfg-rh: updating 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1
Jun 18 14:38:58 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]:    ifcfg-rh: error: 
Couldn't parse file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1'
Jun 18 14:38:58 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]:    ifcfg-rh: removed 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1.
Jun 18 14:39:20 vpnserver ntpd[1247]: Deleting interface #19 eth0:1, 
xxx.xxx.xxx.131#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0, 
active_time=6722 secs
Jun 18 14:40:01 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]:    ifcfg-rh: parsing 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 ...
Jun 18 14:40:01 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]:    ifcfg-rh: read 
connection 'System eth0:1'
Jun 18 14:40:01 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]:    ifcfg-rh: updating 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1
Jun 18 14:40:39 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]: <info> (eth0): device 
state change: 8 -> 3 (reason 39)
Jun 18 14:40:39 vpnserver NetworkManager[1125]: <info> (eth0): 
deactivating device (reason: 39).

when issuing a "service network restart".

Notes:

# ls -la /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
total 212
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 Jun 18 14:40 .
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root  4096 Jun  2 22:31 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   460 Jun 12 10:14 ifcfg-eth0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   114 Jun 18 14:40 ifcfg-eth0:1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   254 Oct  7  2011 ifcfg-lo

# getenforce
Disabled

Latest effort (unsuccessful):

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1
NAME=""
DEVICE="eth0:1"
ONBOOT="yes"
ONPARENT="yes"
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.131
NETMASK=255.255.255.248

Any ideas please?

Thanks,
Nick