Am 04.03.2014 00:24, schrieb Les Mikesell:
> What's the right way to assign an IP alias to an ethernet interface
> that you want to bring up and down manually, not on boot?
>
> I tried the old way of making an ifcfg-eth3:0 file and it does work
> with the ifup, ifdown commands, but even though I specified onboot=no,
> it activated at boot-up.
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.03.40/sysconfig.txt
ONBOOT=yes|no (not valid for alias devices; use ONPARENT)
ONPARENT=yes|no
Whether to bring up the device when the parent device is brought
up.
Default: yes
Alexander