[ale] NIC troubles

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 16:53 -0400, Ryan Fish wrote:
> Dow,
> 
> I shut down eth0:0 and found that eth1 still works fine.  For whatever
> reason I am now unable to restart eth0:0 due to the following error:
> 
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> 
> I tried creating it as eth0:1 and starting it but receive the same error.
> This interface is being set to use a static IP that is not in use anywhere
> else within the network.
> 
> I've Googled for this but haven't found much.

I have hit that same issue. The solution is the restart all of
networking. I don't know why ifconfig eth0:1 up won't work with virtual
interfaces. It just won't.
> 
> OS: RHEL ES3
> 
> Thank you.
> -Ryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dow Hurst [mailto:Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:08 PM
> To: FishR at bellsouth.net; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] NIC troubles
> 
> If you take eth0:0 down does eth1 still give errors and collisions?  
> And, vice versa?  Let's prove your interfaces are working separately 
> without problems first.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Ryan Fish wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> >
> >After completing a server move from one DC to another I have been putting
> out small fires.  This one, though, has left me scratching my head so far...
> >
> >OS: RHEL ES3
> >
> >There are two NICs in this server: one for public and one for private.  For
> some reason it appears there is a conflict between the second IP on the
> first NIC (eth0:0) and the only IP on the second NIC (eth1).  See below:
> >
> >eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:04:76:89  
> >          inet addr:209.168.xxx.xxx  Bcast:209.168.xxx.xxx
> Mask:255.255.255.240
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:4678729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:4455288 errors:38 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:374563 txqueuelen:1000 
> >          RX bytes:1819725445 (1735.4 Mb)  TX bytes:950192933 (906.1 Mb)
> >          Interrupt:16 
> >
> >eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:04:76:8A  
> >          inet addr:192.168.3.xxx  Bcast:192.168.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:4678729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:4455288 errors:38 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:374563 txqueuelen:1000 
> >          RX bytes:1819725445 (1735.4 Mb)  TX bytes:950192933 (906.1 Mb)
> >          Interrupt:17
> >
> >As can be seen by the MAC addresses these are not the same NIC.  However,
> all of the stats (RX/TX/collisions, etc) are exactly the same between them
> while eth0 is behaving nicely.
> >
> >Any suggestions on why this happening and where I should look to correct
> it?
> >
> >Thank you in advance.
> >-Ryan
> >
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