hi guys, i got centos on a VM and I set the VM to have two NICs.

1ST NIC static - ifcfg-eth0

2ND NIC DHCP - ifcfg-eth4

My question is why i'm not able to find ifcfg-eth4 on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory?

ifcfg-eth4 works fine and it has an IP Address.

If i type ifconfig-a it is shown but just can't find the configuration file on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

only ifcfg-eth0 is there.

Does it mean that I need to create the file manually on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ?

Thank you.

Which version on CentOS you are running on. Also, do you have NetworkManager running. Files under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/<files> are usually used for manual / expert configuration. NetworkManager is legacy. If you don't have a file you can create one. Or, I would suggest just launch NetworkManager and see if you are able to see settings for eth4 and what is the name NetworkManager showing there? Just toggle something in network manager and save. See if it creates the file.

Incase it does not create the file yes create the file manually.

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hi T3RMINVTOR, thanks for your reply. I'm just trying to understand more this Linux stuff since i'm busy with it.

If this project is over then don't have time anymore to mess up with it.

It's CentOS 6.5, Network Manager also not showing there.

Anyway it is working fine, I'm just wandering why it's not showing in sysconfig/network-scripts directory.

But on /sys/class/net it shows up there.


Thanks.

You're welcome. Yes, it is good to play around before the things goes in production ;-)

What do you mean when you say you cannot see it in NetworkManager. Are you trying to say that the device itself doesn't showup in NetworkManager?

Yes it doesn't showup in NetworkManager.

In NetworkManager it shows System Eth0 - which corresponds to ifcfg-eth0

There is another one: Auto Ethernet but Last Used shows "never", so I guess that's not referring to Eth4 (ifcfg-eth4)

by right the Eth4 should shows up in NetworkManager?

Eth4 is a wired connection.

Quite interesting and it appears to be that Auto Eth is the one pointing to eth4 it is just that the name is not correct it is not able to reflect the status / state.

Alright, as you said eth4 is a wired connection and assuming that you are logged in GUI you will see network icon for your ethernet somewhere in the system tray. Right click on it and click on edit connection and see where does it take you to.

If I do it takes me to the screen where I can see System Eth0 and Auto Eth. Where i can set the interface to static or dhcp.

On that screen itself, if you will select eth0 and click on edit / configure it will allow you to edit that. Same goes for Auto eth which I still suspect is pointing to eth4.

I agree with you Auto Eth could be pointing to Eth4 but what is interesting is that it shows "Last Used" "never".

Eth4 is currently used and is holding a DHCP IP and able to ping or browse on that subnet.

Did you try changing Auto Eth to eth4 and see if it still shows as not in use? Did you try toggling the settings in NetworkManager? Did you see any file getting created?

What is the output of route -n, interested in the device name it shows in the output.

route -n shows

eth3 and eth4

I think eth3 is being used by eth0

If i run system-config-network it only shows eth0 (no other device)

Toggling Settings in Network Manager will have some file created on sys-config/network-scripts directory

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I'm actually messing up also with /etc/rc.d/rc.local

because eth0 is static IP(192.168.1.x subnet) and eth4 is DHCP with 192.168.2.x subnet.

I notice that when the system boots up it only connects to the eth0 or the static IP network

but when I run dhclient -v from a terminal line eth4 shows up and able to receive DHCP IP

so I give a shot to edit rc.local and put in the command dhclient -v and there it goes both networks are fine every time I login

But I guess its not connected at boot time or during some initialization process .

I don't know at what stage is rc.local being processed.

But what I want is to get the network ready when I login to the VM.

Thanks...

Instead of putting dhclient in /etc/rc.d/rc.local you can create the ifcfg-eth4 file as follows:

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Thanks i'll give it a shot.

i had try manually creating ifcfg-eth4 and set the settings but eth4 doesn't show up unless i type dhclient -v

Thanks.

this is the ip addr show configuration:

[vmx@xvmm01 ~]$ ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:17:5c:7d:13:ee brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.24/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth3
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:17:7d:7d:1a:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.24/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth4
inet 192.168.2.120/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global eth4
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

why eth4 shows two IPs?

Thanks.