Tony Mountifield wrote: > Hmmm, in a previous post you said you had multiple aliases and three errors. > But above, you have only posted one main device and one alias. Are they ones > that succeed of fail? > Every one of them fails except eth0 itself (which is good or I would have locked myself out). > The reason I said to use "head -20" and "ifcfg-eth0*" was that if you used > that command literally, it would (a) output ALL eth0 aliases, and (b) prepend > each one automatically with a filename header, assuming there is more than > one file. > I used the GUI to create the interfaces: the files are not called 'ifcfg-eth0:1' etc but they are named. But I get your point so heres the full listing: [root at hagrid ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0:1 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=10.1.1.128 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ONPARENT=yes # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. GATEWAY=87.233.68.193 TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0:2 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.224 IPADDR=87.233.68.195 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ONPARENT=yes # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0:3 BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=87.233.68.194 BROADCAST=87.233.68.223 NETMASK=255.255.255.224 NETWORK=87.233.68.192 GATEWAY=87.233.68.193 TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ONPARENT=yes ONBOOT=yes # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. GATEWAY=87.233.68.193 TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0:4 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.224 IPADDR=87.233.68.196 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ONPARENT=yes ONBOOT=yes # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. GATEWAY=87.233.68.193 TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0:5 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.224 IPADDR=87.233.68.197 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ONPARENT=yes ONBOOT=yes # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=87.233.3.255 HWADDR=00:0C:29:26:D9:E6 IPADDR=87.233.3.247 NETMASK=255.255.255.240 NETWORK=87.233.3.240 ONBOOT=yes GATEWAY=87.233.3.241 TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback I went over the configs a couple of times and the last attempt to restart one interface using ifup and ifdown did not show that error (and the interfaces come up) - a full networking restart gives those errors and once again the aliasses don't come up. Even though the networking script says [OK] for each interface... I'm confused... Berend