<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 11/04/2007, at 22:24 , Sigurd Magnusson wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV id="EmailBody"><DIV id="Content" class="typography"><P>The server running <A href="http://www.silverstripe.com">www.silverstripe.com</A> had to be rebooted today and to <BR> my annoyance at bootup it didn't bring up all the network interfaces. It <BR> only brought up eth0 and lo, but there are around 10 others, <BR></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>...<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV id="EmailBody"><DIV id="Content" class="typography"><P> When I noticed this, I just ran "ifup -a" and everything came to life.<BR> <BR> Any ideas on why this didn't happen in the first instance.</P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV>In one of the config files i'd imagine theres an ONBOOT flag that is either not there or is no for the interfaces added after it was created.</DIV><DIV>The script I looked at on one of my boxen, grabs a list of interfaces with a ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg* - each of which contains config for that interface, including an ONBOOT flag - if the flag is =no, then it won't start it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>eg - check:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 240, 233); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D4064" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">toot@OnyxL # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 240, 233); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D4064" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 240, 233); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D4064" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ONBOOT=yes</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D4064" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">..</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If in your system log the interfaces were asked to come up and didn't thats another story, but the ifup -a could mean a missing flag or similar - often config changes are made while server is running, and not saved permanently. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Jo.</DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>