ifconfig -a sees eth0 ifconfig does not
 

Thank you in advance for any help you may be.
I have a Dell R910 running Suse Enterprise 10, yes I know old. If I run the command "ifconfig" I only get lo if I run "ifconfig -a" I see lo and eth0, and sit0
I edited the file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0
I ran the command "service network restart" it shows stopping the network but when it gets to starting eth0 it says skipping
Why is this?

found it, had to add the line
STARTMODE=onboot
I don't ever remember doing that in Red Hat, must be a Suse thing.

Thank you

Well, yes, in Red Hat it probably doesn't exist at all and it's definitely not necessary. Moreover, the config files in RHEL are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, not in /etc/sysconfig/network. There are probably many differences between the two distros. It took me quite some time to actually turn on the ssl engine on apache in suse. I found out that there was this option in /etc/apache2 (or thereabouts) that I needed to activate in order for it to work. Seemed completely useless, but whatever :)