network doesn't start at boot
 

hi,

I had redhat 9.0 and i am facing the problem that the network don,t start at boot but I have to activate the eth0 after boot and I have start the network then.

Everytime I boot i have redo all this stuff .

Can anybody help me and tell me how can i activate eth0 while boot itself.

I shall be very thankful for ur kind help.

ritturaj :confused:

In redhat 9, you can edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

It should look something like this:

DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=128.???.???.???
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=128.???.???.???
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
NETWORK=128.101.170.0
BROADCAST=128.101.170.255

If you leave everything else the way it is, but change the ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes, then it should start on boot.

hi ,

It is already yes in it but it didn't do at the time of booting

here is my file

GATEWAY=??.??.???.???
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0:1
HWADDR=00:0d:60:04:a9:3b
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.192
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=??.??.???.???
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
NETWORK=??.??.???.???
BROADCAST=??.??.???.???

I have to activate eth0 again and agian and restart the network after the boot

ritturaj:confused:

Hmm..

Check to see that the file /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K90network (or something with the word network in it's name should be in this directory) is available. If it is there, you can test if it works by typing the command /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0 (or eth0:1)

If that does work, then there might be a problem with the K90network script.

Also I swear there is a GUI tool in Redhat 9 that you can set if the device starts on boot, but I can't remember where it is. It might just change the ifcfg-eth0 file though.