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Most of my experience configuring network settings has been through various GUI tools available in GNOME and KDE. I have some older hardware that will not run KDE or GNOME and I am trying to configure the NIC. I have installed Webmin to try to configure the interface, and it does fine for setting a static address or DHCP address, but the interface (eth0) is not active at boot. As soon as I run ifup eth0, it will use the assigned IP or pull DHCP based on settings, but I can't seem to get it to automatically activate at boot. And yes, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 does have ONBOOT=yes set.
I need two things...
1 - are there any good cli tools, ncurses or such like netcfg I can install to manage the interface (I have tried the network manager cli tools, maybe I just don't get it, but that isn't working so good for me)
2 - any suggestions on how to make the interface activate at boot.
Thanks for the tool, I tried it, and it does fine configuring the interface, however I don't see an option to make the network card active at boot...
I have gone into the configuration files and set the option ONBOOT=yes, but I still have to run "ifup eth0" every time I restart. Here are the configs I have, any suggestions?
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