Maybe you will like ethtool from now. ------------ Banyan He Blog: http://www.rootong.com Email: banyan at rootong.com On 3/21/2013 5:21 PM, isdtor wrote: > Under CentOS6, is it possible to get an interface to RUNNING state > without assigning a (dummy) IP address? > > # ifconfig em2 > em2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:2B:CB:67:3E:5C > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > > This was working fine on RHEL3 simply by running ifconfig up. > > # ifconfig eth1 up > # ifconfig eth1 > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:25:57:8B:2D > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:10658057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:1169901971 (1115.7 Mb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Base address:0x3400 Memory:d0240000-d0260000 > > # dmesg |grep eth1 > ... > e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex > # > > provided there is a link. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >