-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a intel server with 6 network cards (2 onboard, 4 on pci slots). I used the suse way for creating vlans (/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-vlanxxx) . The server is booting and all looks fine. After some time (2 hours or more) the vlanxxx interfaces vanishes and: ifconfig vlan201 : error fetching interface information: Device not found But .. the vlan exists in the kernel: router:~ # ls -l /sys/class/net/vlan201 total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-01-26 11:15 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 0 2006-01-26 11:17 .. - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 address - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 addr_len - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 broadcast - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 carrier - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 features - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 flags - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 ifindex - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 iflink - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 mtu drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-01-26 11:15 statistics - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 tx_queue_len - -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 type - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-01-26 11:15 weight Running tcpdump on that interface, works fine as well. But I don't understant why ifconfig tells me that vlan201 interface does not exists. Someone got this before ? The system has OpenSuSE 10.0 with all updates. Kernel is Linux router 2.6.13-15.7-smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:32:29 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux - -- ================================================== inf. Manuel SUBREDU Network Engineer at RoEduNet Iasi Phone: +40 (232) 201007 +40 (742) 088067 Email: diablo@iasi.roedu.net website: http://www.packages.ro GPG key: http://www.packages.ro/diablo.gpg.txt ================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2Lz8jGXbUSvc3AsRApuHAJ40XKgehGScC7tsHx5PY9IZkeDuKACZAVSC wjshUKOpFYF1awUSJHfRelI= =xCg8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----