Centos 7: failed to bring up/down networking: configure interface for a trunk interface

Question

The switch configured on the server (Centos 7) is configured as trunk for VLAN#115,2014. I have loaded

# lsmod | grep 8021q
# modprobe 8021q

I would like to configure an IP address on the server using the VLAN#115 Performing the following configuration:

ifcfg-em1

TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
DEFROUTE=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_PEERDNS=yes
IPV6_PEERROUTES=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
NAME=em1
UUID=c0c4d851-d762-4301-8c20-d6128aee5261
DEVICE=em1
ONBOOT=yes

ifcfg-em1.115

TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=172.31.141.242
PREFIX=24
GATEWAY=172.31.141.1
DEFROUTE=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_PEERDNS=yes
IPV6_PEERROUTES=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
NAME=em1.115
UUID=c0c4d851-d762-4301-8c20-d6128aee5261
DEVICE=em1.115
VLAN=yes
ONBOOT=yes

I ended up being not able to restart the network service. The error message appearing is :

Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.

Could you please advise ? What am doing wrong ?

Answer 1

it seems that disabling NetworkManager did the trick :)

systemctl stop NetworkManager
systemctl disable NetworkManager

Answer 2

Maybe a little late, but the problem in my case was that the UUID field of the two interfaces was the same, and they must be unique. Disabling NetworkManager does the trick, but the real solution would be changing/deleting the field. Leaving this here for future reference.

Answer 3

I was facing the same issue. Fortunately,

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop

gracefully stopped the network service. Then I did an:

ip addr flush dev <<dev-name>>

After that you can start the service, using either systemctl or /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start.

Answer 4

you need to add following in you file HWADDR="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" where xxxx is the real or cloned mac address of your interface card you can find by issuing command ifconfig -a.

Answer 5

IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes"

Toggle the value-

IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
IPV6INIT=no # (if IPV6 not require)

Answer 6

Remove any additional ifcfg-Wiredconnection1 or -2 of the new adapters you have added on the server that are not used by the l2 or l3 network and restart. It will work.

Answer 7

This will solve the problem!

# rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-ipoib.rules 

# reboot

• Now edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0,
• Add new HWADDR generated or remove it
• Remove UUID line

-Restart the networking service

 #systemctl restart network.service

NOW! Working.

Answer 8

restart my machine and network service are not resolved this issue in my linux box.

I have removed the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and then recreated the file with different name ifcfg-eth1 with static ip details. After that I have started network service and it worked.

Answer 9

1. Just comment #UUID

   ##UUID=XXXXX-XXXX-XXX-XXXXX
   

2. Restart network

   sudo systemctl restart network
   

Answer 10

I had same problem with LSB in Centos and Ubunto on VMware. I solved it turn off Wifi on host (real machine) and turn on, and reboot the guest.

Answer 11

I had this error after importing a VM. The solution is to fix the HW address in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens32 (ens32 happened to be my interface. You can check yours using Network Manager with nmtui)file.

Type 'ip addr' and note down the HW addr of your interface, for example 00:50:56:8d:6a:9e.Look up for the interface you are interested in from the list you get from 'ip addr'.

Open to edit your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens32 (change ifcfg-ens32 with your interface name, as said above get it from nmtui) and modify that address next to the key HWADDR.

Now: service network restart

Answer 12

For me, it was a missing file/entry: /etc/sysconfig/network.

Without file and gateway:

[root@randomHost ~]# file /etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network: cannot open (No such file or directory)
[root@randomHost ~]#
[root@randomHost ~]#
[root@randomHost ~]# systemctl status network.service
● network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2019-01-07 10:53:38 UTC; 1 weeks 0 days ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Jan 07 10:53:38 randomHost systemd[1]: network.service failed.

After adding file and gateway:

[root@randomHost ~]# 
[root@randomHost ~]# echo "GATEWAY=10.XX.XX.XX" >> /etc/sysconfig/network
[root@randomHost ~]# 
[root@randomHost ~]# systemctl status network.service
● network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Mon 2019-01-14 12:18:28 UTC; 2s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 329008 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Answer 13

Just stop and disable NetworkManager

And once again restart services it will be work

#systemctl stop NetworkManager
#systemctl disable NetworkManager

#service network restart