[Fedora-livecd-list] HowTo: dynamic eth0 and static eth1

[Tim Wood]

To answer my own question, after much fiddling, I found an approach that 
works and gives me one static and one dynamic ip. Snipping from the 
kickstart and adding some comments:

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# First, I can't get this to work with NetworkManager, so I switched to 
using network:
services --enabled=network --disabled=NetworkManager,sshd

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# Then I use a standard dhcp config on eth0:
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on

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# Then in the %post section, I create an init script and set it to start 
right after network:

%post

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script="tdw-network-config"
path="/etc/rc.d/init.d/$script"
cat > $path << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# TDW Network Config: Configure Networking
#
# chkconfig: 345 11 99
# description: Fix Network Configuration so both eth devices work as we 
want them to work

# These _should_ be pulled from a config file!
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 netmask 255.255.255.0
EOF
chmod 755 $path
/sbin/restorecon $path
/sbin/chkconfig --add $script

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Tim Wood wrote:
> In my livecd-creator kickstart, I'm trying variants to do one dhcp and 
> one static eth:
>
> network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on
> network --bootproto=static --device=eth1 --onboot=on --ip=[ snip ]
>
> When I check ifconfig, I have eth1 with dhcp and eth0 without an ip.  
> When I go through Network Device Control (gui), I see eth0, eth1, 
> eth0.bak and eth1.bak with my static dumped in one weird place and my 
> dhcp in another.  Headache time...
>
> When I googled around I didn't find much useful besides a grumpy post 
> that indicates there are problems with Network Manager under f8.  
> Heavily snipped down version:
>
> Fedora's implementation of Network Manager ... will (not) allow you to 
> set your system to a fixed IP address - only DHCP assigned addresses 
> work. ... take a look at 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172205&highlight=networkmanager 
>
>
> Is anybody on the list using eth0 and eth1 in a kickstart file or have 
> an idea how to make such a setup work.
>
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