LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] 2 eth interfaces not coming up at boot

Hi everyone,

Need a little help here. I have 2 interfaces configured on a RHEL 6.2 server: eth0 and eth2. I chose these two interfaces because I may end up having two bonds in the future: eth0/1 and eth2/3.

These interfaces work fine when they're up. The problem is that they don't come up at boot. I have to run the commands ifup eth0 and ifup eth2 to bring them up manually. If I run service network restart it only stops/starts the loopback interface.

Here is the output of chkconfig showing that network should come up when I boot into run level 3:

Code:

[root@lab-vm-ps1 ~]# chkconfig --list | grep network

matahari-network        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

network        0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

I should also mention this is a brand new VM running in KVM, which is also on a RHEL 6.2 host. Not sure how much difference it makes that it's virtual.

Anyone know why the network service wouldn't see these interfaces and I'd have to manually manage them with ifup/ifdown? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks