CentOS container cannot enable network

[curlingcanteen]

I installed CentOS 6 Standard (also tried with minimal) via a template and cannot seem to enable eth0. Bridge mode to vmbr0 was selected during container creation, and this is the device info:

ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: venet0: <BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN 
    link/void 
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN 
    link/ether 02:86:47:81:c0:49 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I've defined /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with:

    auto eth0
    ONBOOT=yes
    allow-hotplug eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

But when I try to bring the device up or restart networking, I see

# ifup eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 1: auto: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 2: allow-hotplug: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 3: iface: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 1: auto: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 2: allow-hotplug: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 3: iface: command not found
Device does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

# service network restart
./ifcfg-eth0: line 1: auto: command not found
./ifcfg-eth0: line 3: allow-hotplug: command not found
./ifcfg-eth0: line 4: iface: command not found
Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 1: auto: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 3: allow-hotplug: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 4: iface: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 1: auto: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 3: allow-hotplug: command not found
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: line 4: iface: command not found
Device does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
                                                           [FAILED]

 

[spirit]

Hi,

you use debian syntax in centos.

just read the doc here:
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-dhcp-configuring-client.html


The /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file should contain the following lines:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

 

[curlingcanteen]

That's what I thought, but this didn't work.

Thanks for the link!

 

[spirit]

That's what I thought, but this didn't work.

Yes, because this is a debian documentation, and you are using a centos container

 

[curlingcanteen]

I don't know what I was thinking. Thanks again for straightening me out, spirit!