Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (83 mails)

[David Carter <dpc22@xxxxxxxxx>]

I used the following under 9.0 to set up a system with a real IP address
(enabled by default) and a virtual IP address (disabled by default).

The virtual address is shared between two systems for failover purposes:
if the main system fails, we just do an "/sbin/ifup eth0:1" on the spare.

  <configure>
    <networking>
      . . .
      <interfaces config:type="list">
        <interface>
          <device>eth0</device>
          <ipaddr>131.111.8.51</ipaddr>
          <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
        </interface>
        <interface>
          <device>eth0:1</device>
          <ipaddr>131.111.8.59</ipaddr>
          <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
          <startmode>manual</startmode>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
        </interface>
      </interfaces>
      . . .

This doesn't work under 9.1 (autoyast appears to ignore the interface
entirely). I understand that the ethX:Y notation is now deprecated, though
it is referred to on page 283 of the printed manual.

Is there a way of getting the same effect under 9.1?

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