James B. Byrne wrote: > Arch = x86_64 > OS = CentOS-6.4 (centos) with all updates applied to date. > > On our gateway host eth0 is the WAN access and eth1 is the LAN. I wish > to activate the address 192.185.71.1 on eth1. The ifcfg-eth1:192071 > file contains this: > > NAME="" > BOOTPROTO=none > MACADDR="" > IPV6INIT=no > DEVICE=eth1:192071 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > MTU="" > BROADCAST=192.168.71.255 > ONPARENT=no > IPADDR=192.168.71.1 > NETWORK=192.168.71.0 > ONBOOT=no <snip> I don't know if this would affect it, but for completeness' sake, I'd change several there, to have BOOTPROTO=static and put in the MAC address. Have you checked with ifconfig to make sure that the correct NIC is addressed as eth1? If this is CentOS 6, you need to also check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules mark