Re: 10gR2 RAC install... Checking existence of VIP Node application -- failed

if I run ./vipca manually as 'oracle'... with the parameters passed like root.sh...

oracle_at_mceclnx1:/opt/oracle_crs/product/10.2.0/CRS/bin> ./vipca - nodelist mceclnx1,mceclnx2 -nodevips 'mceclnx1/mceclnx1-vip/ 255.255.255.0/eth0,mceclnx2/mceclnx2-vip/255.255.255.0/eth0' The given interface(s), "eth0" is not public. Public interfaces should be used to configure virtual IPs.

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ETH0 is the interface I want... and I flagged it as "public" during the installation process (using the universal installer...)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr [ this would be the MAC ]
          inet addr:10.1.1.5  Bcast:10.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:bbff:fe22:a37a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1109605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:915021 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:108961439 (103.9 Mb)  TX bytes:791088532 (754.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:19

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr [ MAC goes here :) ]
          inet addr:10.1.10.1  Bcast:10.1.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:bbff:fe22:a379/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:414553 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:457072 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:49661427 (47.3 Mb)  TX bytes:50974811 (48.6 Mb)
          Interrupt:20