On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: >> 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 > That worked, thanks! I was trying to find it in the RedHat online docs but it was mostly about NetworkManger. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com