[CentOS] Weird behaviour of ifcfg scripts

Tue Oct 2 13:24:26 UTC 2012
Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at>

On 2.10.2012 15:00, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I accidentally found that the existence of a file e.g. named 
> ifcfg-eth1:1 put in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ leads to the 
> appropriate interface being created even with the option 'ONBOOT' set to 
> 'no':
> 
> DEVICE="eth1:1"
> BOOTPROTO="static"
> NM_CONTROLLED="no"
> ONBOOT="no"
> TYPE="Ethernet"
> IPADDR=12.34.56.78
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> 
> Is that intended behaviour?

I think so.
See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-March/124152.html
-- 
Kind Regards, Markus Falb

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