[Bug 876829] Re: Oneiric's ifupdown breaks ip aliases

[Stéphane Graber]

The current ifupdown in Debian is believed to have the fix for this
problem.

However I wouldn't recommend using it on Ubuntu as Ubuntu maintains
quite a few changes on top of ifupdown so that it works with some of the
Ubuntu specific changes (upstart being the biggest one of them).

I'm expecting the new ifupdown to be merged from Debian within the next
few weeks, once that's done and it's been tested in Ubuntu Precise, I'll
prepare an SRU for 11.10 containing just the needed fix (and any other
fixes I consider important to backport).

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Title:
  Oneiric's ifupdown breaks ip aliases

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ifupdown” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “ifupdown” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “ifupdown” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Using the following /etc/network/interfaces file doesn't create the ip
  alias, when the same file works fine in natty and lower:

  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback

  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.122.201
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.122.255
  gateway 192.168.122.1

  auto eth0:0
  iface eth0:0 inet static
  address 10.102.0.200
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 10.102.0.255

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ifupdown 0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 17 16:15:53 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
  SourcePackage: ifupdown
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-16 (62 days ago)

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