ifconfig on Network start/restart
 

I am running fedora Core 3 and have several ifconfig commands I am currently entering manually.

What would be the "correct" way to script/install these commands to run automatically any time the Network service starts/restarts?

Chris

u can put that in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network script

BTW what ifconfg commands do u use???

regards

I was unsure about entering the details into this script, I will read some documentation if I can find it.

What I am doing is creating a list of interfaces like this:

ifconfig eth1:1 266.123.54.996 netmask 255.255.255.240 up
ifconfig eth1:2 266.123.54.997 netmask 255.255.255.240 up
ifconfig eth1:3 266.123.54.998 netmask 255.255.255.240 up

to create virtual interfaces. Should I be doing this in some other way?

Chris

Create files e.g. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:1 with content
IPADDR=10.1.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes



Then give command service network restart


btw, I hope you are not using those addresses (266.123.54.996)?

that will be fine i think

u can have alook at some other network scripts to look for more options other than these

regards

(Re: ip numbers - No - they were duds I plugged in - should have clarified that)

This is exactly the solution I tried unsuccessfully before posting - I wll go away and check I had done it correctly!

I could not quickly figure out where the devices list was derived from used in the networking scripts, it did not seem to pick up these files in the network-scripts directory. I had given them rw- r-- r-- permissions which were the same as the ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 files had.

Many thanks for your responses.

Chris

why is that need of ifconfig everytime? what is your intention?

Hello,

My intention was to create virtual interfaces for records in DNS when the machine only actually has 2 network devices.

Am I overlooking something simple!

Chris