I'm setting up IP-based Virtual hosts on a VMWare ESX host running Fedora 12, so I need to alias my network adapter. I added eth0 to the server with the correct MAC for PXE installation. I added eth0:0 and eth0:1 as devices with their respective IPs
Cobbler produces 3 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ifcfg-* files as expected, with the aliases being ONPARENT=yes
BUT...the network is all wonky after booting. eth0 is responding only to the eth0:1 IP address and eth0:1 and eth0:0 aren't active.
"service network restart" doesn't help at all.
If I do "ifdown eth0;ifup eth0" the network comes back up perfectly, with everything active and IPs assigned correctly
I believe this to be an instance of or related to this bug -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443968
Does anyone else experience this? Is it intrinsic to using VMWare? I can't actually test at the moment since I lack additional physical hosts. Should I log this information as data against the Fedora bug?
Thanks, Mykel