Hi!

I have a problem which I am sure to be some software issue.
I have had a working internet connection on a LAN with no problems at all, just last week.

It was all configured with dchp and using the Mandrake center I made it work quite easily.
Meanwhile I tried to configure internet at home and changed some settings. It didn't work at home. Came back to the office where I had the working LAN, reverse things to what they used to be, and it doesn't work anymore!!!!

Some relevant output:

/sbin/ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0... done.
./ifup: line 479: 12231 Hangup /etc/init.d/tmdns reload >/dev/null 2>&1


and


ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02:F3:8C:2C
inet6 addr: fe80::208:2ff:fef3:8c2c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:636821 (621.8 Kb) TX bytes:87058 (85.0 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02:F3:8C:2C
inet addr:127.255.255.255 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:39316 (38.3 Kb) TX bytes:39316 (38.3 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


The script
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0


DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=00:08:02:f3:8c:2c
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=yes
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=no
PEERNTPD=no


Any thoughts on this?

I don't think that the device eth0:9 was there before.

I read some forums where people had similar problems, but no-one seems to have got it fixed.

I thank everyone in advance!

Nelson