Error when using secondary IP in RH AS4 U3 for PE1850 with DRAC.

[Steven Wayne]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:15:07PM +0800, Hans_Chen at dell.com wrote:
> 
> We uses "ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.50.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up" to bind
> the secondary IP address to eth0 in PE1850 which has DRAC card.
> But from output of ifconfig,  no "RX packets, TX packets" info for the
> eth0:1, it shows netmask to be 255.255.255.255.
> netstat -i aslo no data for eth0:1.
> The eth0:1 can not work if using it as virtual server IP in Apache.
> All PE1850 + AS4 U3 all have the same issue, but PE1850+ AS4 is ok.
> Somebody told me that maybe it was caused by conflict of NIC driver and
> DRAC card in PE1850, is it true?
> 

Use:

ip addr add 192.168.50.7/24 dev eth0

Check with:

ip addr show eth0

Steven.
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