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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> A. Khattri wrote: |
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>> |
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>> One of my servers has a lot of IP aliases on eth0 so I thought it |
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>> would be easier to use iproute2 instead of ifconfig. I duly commented |
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>> out modules=("ifconfig") in /etc/conf.d/net (since the comments |
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>> indicate iproute2 is the default in that case). Upon reboot, the |
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>> startup scripts showed the IP aliases being added and each said [ok] |
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>> but they did not appear to be added at all. Did I do something wrong |
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>> or is iproute2 not the right tool for the job? I switched back to |
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>> ifconfig and the startup scripts work fine. |
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> |
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> They're added, but they don't show up in the 'ifconfig' output. You'll |
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> see them all if you run 'ip addr'. |
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> |
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>> Also, each IP took a few seconds to add (this machine has 260 IPs!) - |
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>> as you can imagine it took about 15 minutes to add all the IPs before |
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>> the rest of the boot process could continue. Is there any way to |
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>> speed this up? Maybe forego the "arping" check for every single IP |
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>> added? |
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> |
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> modules_eth0=( "!arping" ) |
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> |
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>> Final problem: I tried to force full-duplex on eth0 by using ethtool |
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>> in the preup() function in /etc/conf.d/net. But now Im seeing errors |
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>> like this on my console: |
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> |
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> Why are you forcing it? The fact that you need to force it tells me |
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> that there's something else wrong. |
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> |
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There is something wrong, look at the thread he started above this |
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labeled 100Mbit FD :) |
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