[Linux-HA] onboard NIC looses IP on reboot

[Rudi Ahlers]

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?

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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux

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