I have a virtual KVM server with two virtual interfaces, eth0 and eth1

both have a similar ifcfg-ethX file with the onboot=yes, and the only change beeing the ip and gateway addresses

however when I reboot the server or do a service network restart, eth0 won't work, it will still show the IP address when I list it but it wont work unless i do a ifdown/ifup on it

what could be causing this issue?

i tried deleting the virtual nic and add a new one with a new MAC, the problem still same

DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=10.0.55.31
PREFIX=24
GATEWAY=10.0.55.254
DNS1=10.0.5.1
DNS2=10.0.5.2
DOMAIN=mydomain.com
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NAME=eth0

Do you define GATEWAY in both ifcfg files? This might confuse setup code, not sure.
DEFROUTE is, as far as I know, only used in ppp config files, but perhaps it also confuses the network setup.

After rebooting, show us:

• output of ip a
• output of ip r
• both ifcfg files
• whatever command you use to test eth0

then the same again after ifdown/up.

thank you,

the problem was indeed in the config files having a default gateway, i removed the gateway from eth1 and it now works

now my next question, what would be the best way to add a route to the gateway i removed? create rules and add on /etc/rc.local or use iptables?
either way im no sure how to get done...

I think what you want is static routing. I don't know this by heart, but there are plenty of cookbooks on the internet.