On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > To: centos at centos.org > From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5: what do /etc/sysconfig/networking and > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts exactly ? > > On 11/24/10 12:14 AM, giggzounet wrote: >> Hi, >> >> on our cluster we have 5 network interfaces. I was surprised to discover >> that the ifcfd-* files under /etc/sysconfig/networking and >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts were not the same. So I have searched a >> little bit, but I'm now confused: >> >> - the files under /etc/sysconfig/networking come from system-config-network. >> - the files under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts are read by the >> /etc/init.d/network script and used to set up the network interfaces. >> - I don't find where the files under /etc/sysconfig/networking are used. >> - Does system-config-network modify the file under >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts too ? >> >> Is there someone who can enlightenment me ? > > take a look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/network > > thats the script that runs all that other stuff to fire up all the > networking interfaces defined. > > its moderately complicated. Some of the ifcfg* scripts may also be hard-linked to make things a little more complicated. Keith