12.04 wating for network configuration caused by virtual interface

**zjeraar** · May 8th, 2012

I have added 2 static ip addresses to eth0, but this causes problems at boot, I get the message "waiting for network configuration" and after waiting a few minutes I get that the network is not configured correctly, but everything seems okay. Also /sbin/ifconfig gives shows everything is okay.

My /etc/network/interfaces:

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 141.138.136.42
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 141.138.136.0
        broadcast 141.138.136.255
        gateway 141.138.136.1
        dns-nameservers 80.69.67.66 80.69.66.67
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
        address 141.138.137.212
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 141.138.137.0
        broadcast 141.138.137.255
        gateway 141.138.137.1

Output of /sbin/ifconfig:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:00:c7:e5:e2
          inet addr:141.138.136.42  Bcast:141.138.136.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::5054:ff:fec7:e5e2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:896 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:140116 (140.1 KB)  TX bytes:43382 (43.3 KB)
eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:00:c7:e5:e2
          inet addr:141.138.137.212  Bcast:141.138.137.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

When I comment auto eth0:1 in /etc/network/interfaces the box starts up fine, but without the 2nd ip of course.

Any ideas?