hello you can enable and disable the interface by the graphical it is inadvisable to make updates to a server and make changes version
2010/7/24 Robert Simpson <[email protected]> > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 17:36 -0700, Nathan wrote: > > I have never had a problem with this before, but after upgrading our > > Ubuntu production server from 8.10 to 10.04 by doing a fresh install, > > I cannot seem to use ifup or ifdown on an alias that is set to DHCP. > > 'ifup' and 'ifdown' work just fine as long as I set a static IP. > > > > We have a laptop running ubuntu server edition with DRBL installed in > > order to perform multicast cloning. The laptop is vital for our > > mobility. I was able to jerry rig it for the time being by assigning > > the alias a static IP when needed, but it would be nice to have it > > dynamically assigned instead. > > > > We need ifup and ifdown to work so that the dhcp server does not > > assign the alias an ip address, which tends to have the resul of > > clonezilla freezing midway through partimage. > > > > Alternatively I can use the alias as the DHCP server instead, if any > > of you know how I could filter out the interface's MAC address in > > order to prevent assigning the real interface an IP, especially > > considering that drblpush will change the firewall settings if it is > > ever used again to make changes to DRBL. > > > > I am not sure if I have this right but you have two addresses set up on > a single NIC; eth0 and the alias ip is eth0:1. I was googling this and > the only thing that I found was a warning; "This alias IP address will > cause some problems if you do not provide static IP address to DRBL > client via its MAC address. In this example, the DRBL server will lease > IP address to any machine connected to eth0 if no MAC address is set in > the DHCP service." > I don't know if this helps. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
