I'm trying to install a fibre channel network device. This is a Fibre Channel over IP card and (when working) acts similarly to an ethernet card (ipfc0 instead of eth0).

I've managed to install the driver modules successfully and I can run ifconfig and see the card listed there. However, when I try and assign a static IP address, the system hangs! I originally thought that if I add the line alias net-pf-10 off to the modprobe.conf file, this would solve the problem. Still no worky.

Please help!!!

Note: I'm running RHEL5 (kernel 2.6.18-8).

The line entry in /etc/modproble.conf "alias net-pf-10 off' disables IPv6 networking but a bit more is required. Check you /etc/hosts file, RHEL5 defaults to the IPv6 configuration which is not the best choice in the USA and other places.

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no <<---see this line
NOZEROCONF=yes <<--this is nice also


And each /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXXX file needs a line entry;

IPADDR=192.168.0.62 <<--Local IP address of the device
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.10 <<--this could be the IP address of your local system or the destination
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=yes
ONHOTPLUG=yes
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no <<--the IPv6 line entry

Thanks a lot! This is all i needed...

It works now.