Zeus has a point in his comment, I should blog more often.

Here’s the first: NetworkManager again. I noticed that it doesn’t bring my interface alias up anymore. Must have happened after some upgrade. I am not sure.

As I was trying to figure out what’s going on, I opened the network management interface and looked at various things – and it started to work after that. Kind of frightening.

Even more frightening is looking at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases. Looks like there are people who need such a large number of network interfaces, that they needed to assign them in ranges, hence the ifcfg-$DEV-range* files.

OK, this is not that exciting of a post. I’ll do better next time.