Berry, there is a known problem (race in udev) in activation of network interfaces. Details can be found in Novell-bugzilla number 506571.
Regards, Ursula Braun, IBM Germany, Linux on System z development On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:55 +0100, van Sleeuwen, Berry wrote: > Hello listers, > > We have two SLES10 guests running SAMBA. The two machines should be > identical, and in VM they are. > > The production machine has two network interfaces defined, F00 and F10. > The first is the network for regular connections, the second is the > connection to our TSM backup server. > > The test machine can't start the connection for TSM backup. ifconfig > shows only eth0. The f10 device is indeed available but for some reason > it isn't started. I have compared the two guests but can't find a > difference that could tell me why this networkinterface isn't started. > > The nic f10 is defined and coupled to the vswitch. > The /etc/sysconfig/hardware contains identical entries. > The /etc/sysconfig/network contains configuration for both f00 (eth0) > and f10 (eth1). Other than the IP address these members are identical > too. > > rcnetwork restart only starts lo and eth0. ifup eth1 shows interface > eth1 is not available. > > How to get eth1 available? Is there any other location that defines a > NIC that I can check? > > > Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards, > Berry van Sleeuwen > Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven > > ( +31 (0)6 22564276 > > > > > > Atos Origin <http://www.atosorigin.com/> > > MO CF SC Mainframe Services > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
