Mailing List Archive: SuSE 9.3 domU /sbin/ifup workaround

SuSE 9.3 domU /sbin/ifup workaround

Jun 13, 2005, 8:23 AM

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Hi all

I have a SuSE 9.3 domU. It has a eth0 interface, corresponding
to some vif interface in the dom0. Running

ifup eth0

doesn't seem to work. This means I don't get any network.

It seems that /sbin/ifup relies upon /sbin/getcfg but getcfg
does not seem to find the right configuration for the eth0 device.

A attached a patch below with a work around for this. It's
only a work around, because it patches ifup, but I think the
real problem might be with getcfg.

If you want to try this patch, I suggest keeping the original
file around, like so

mv /sbin/ifup /sbin/ifup.orig
cp /sbin/ifup.orig /sbin/ifup
cat patch-ifup | patch /sbin/ifup

hope that helps someone.

Re: SuSE 9.3 domU /sbin/ifup workaround [ In reply to ]

robbie at microbus

Jun 13, 2005, 9:28 AM

Post #2 of 3 (329 views)

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Replying to my own post...

I forgot to say that I had to manually create my
network device configuration file, because the
Yast tool can't detect the ethernet device automatically.
(getcfg broken?)

Here is one way you could do it, adapt for you site.
(I have not tested this, so watch for my typos,
word wrap etc...)

cat >"/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-$(cat
/sys/class/net/eth0/address) <<eof
IPADDR=10.2.8.2
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=10.255.255.255
STARTMODE=onboot
USERCONTROL=no
eof

hope that helps

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Re: SuSE 9.3 domU /sbin/ifup workaround [ In reply to ]

kraxel at suse

Jun 14, 2005, 12:38 AM

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Robbie Dinn <robbie@microbus.com> writes:

> cat >"/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-$(cat
> /sys/class/net/eth0/address) <<eof

You can simply name that file "ifcfg-eth0" ;)

Gerd

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