OS: CentOs 5.7

Hardware: guest di VMWare ESXi 4.1

VM con 2 schede di rete virtuali (emulate entrambe come intel e1000)

# dmesg|grep eth

e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection

e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection

e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

eth0: no IPv6 routers present

# grep eth /etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 e1000

alias eth1 e1000

# lsmod|grep e1000

e1000                 161621  0 

# ip addr

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue 

    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 

1000

    link/ether 00:0c:29:2e:1e:a8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet 10.32.1.15/24 brd 10.32.1.255 scope global eth0

    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe2e:1ea8/64 scope link 

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

3: dev691: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000

    link/ether 00:0c:29:2e:1e:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop 

    link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

# Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)

DEVICE=eth1

BOOTPROTO=static

HWADDR=00:0c:29:2e:1e:a8

IPADDR=10.32.1.45

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

ONBOOT=yes

rullo di tamburi....

# ifup eth1

e1000 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

che cappero succede???

Perch?? diamine eth1 esiste per?? poi non c'??? Quando l'ho configurata la 

prima volta andava perfettamente... qualche idea?