regarding creating a new interface

[abhash jain <jain abhash gmail com>]

Hi All,

i want to create a new interface and assign it to new NIC. but while getting an ip through bootp i am getting following error. can someone please help me?

root n7k-xb37-pc7 ~]# ifup eth2 -i

Active connection state: activating

Active connection path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2

** (process:12360): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting 'State' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2: (19) Method "Get" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

state: unknown

Error: Connection activation failed.

Thanks

Abhash