[Linux-HA] onboard NIC looses IP on reboot

[Jan Kalcic]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I wonder if someone can help me. I have a Gigabyte 8S661FXMP-RZ PIV
> mobo with 10/100 onboard NIC (Sis900), which has been running happily
> for more than 2 years on 192.168.0.6 on Suse 9.3. I recently upgraded
> the machine to Suse 10.2 (fresh install 1 month ago), and it's been
> working fine since yesterday. So, the NIC & the mobo works fine.
>
> Now, I added a new NIC yesterday for heartbeat, and configured it on
> 192.168.100.2 (It's a D-Link DGE-528T)
>
> The problem is, the moment I reboot the server, the onboard NIC looses
> it's IP address, yet the PCI one doesn't.
>
>
> scanpci outpout:
>
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x04 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0900
> Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
>
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x1186 device 0x4300
> D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
>
> lspci
>
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900
> PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit
> Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
>
>
> I can see that the IP address is configured for the NIC, both when I
> use YaST's Network Devices control panel & cat the config file via SSH:
>
> ron:~ # cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-00\:0f\:ea\:c3\:3c\:55
> BOOTPROTO='static'
> BROADCAST=''
> ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
> IPADDR='192.168.0.6'
> MTU=''
> NAME='Giga-byte SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet'
> NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
> NETWORK=''
> REMOTE_IPADDR=''
> STARTMODE='auto'
> UNIQUE='rBUF.yJBPB64E8RC'
> USERCONTROL='no'
> _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:04.0'
> PREFIXLEN=''
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Hi,

What do you mean it loses the I address? Are the interfaces (eth0,
eth1...) created? During the boot are the interfaces activated correctly
or it gives you some error?

Regards,
Jan