ipconfig No RUNNING message

[Pyle, Brian]

I am running 
 
RH Linux oak 2.4.21-37.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:28:55 EDT 2005 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
I have two NIC's.  When I run ifconfig I see both interfaces, but only
one shows a running message.  They are both up and usable, as I can ping
each one, and ssh to either one.  I am certain that it is running, as
I've shut the primary down and can still ssh to the secondary.  Why is
the RUNNING message not showing when I list it via ifconfig?  This is
causing me troubles, because I am trying to install an Oracle ASM
instance, and the installer require that both of these interfaces show
RUNNING.
 
[root at oak init.d]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:79:93:BC:68
          inet addr:10.1.252.50  Bcast:10.1.252.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:86995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:116812 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:55107641 (52.5 Mb)  TX bytes:70172109 (66.9 Mb)
          Interrupt:25
 
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:79:93:BC:67
          inet addr:10.1.252.51  Bcast:10.1.252.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST ??? MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:26
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:51358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:51358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1919953 (1.8 Mb)  TX bytes:1919953 (1.8 Mb)

 

Thanx 
Brian Pyle
Senior Oracle DBA / Unix Administrator
Chelan County PUD
P.O.Box 1231
327 N. Wenatchee Ave.
Wenatchee,  WA  98807 
  
Phone: (509) 661-4386
Fax:     (509) 667-4217 
  
brian.pyle at chelanpud.org <mailto:brian.pyle at chelanpud.org>