Comment 9 for bug 876829

I've commented about delayed boot in bug #881079 and they pointed me into this bug. Well, that's strange enough as in my case alias really is up (just as boot log says, routing table says that also, and my host is available by alias IP from local network, that's why I haven't tried to run ifconfig) but ifconfig doesn't show it but only host interface. My configuration is:

auto lo eth1 eth1:0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth1 inet static
        address 10.11.12.1
        netmask 255.255.0.0
        gateway 10.11.12.13
iface eth1:0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.254
        netmask 255.255.255.0

Hope it can add a bit more help.