Hi there,
i'm new to linux but want to learn.

I need to know how to do something similar to a ping or ipconfig.

I'm running red hat enterprise.

My net was workign via dhcp i changed it to static, which i know was right because i set it to the same as it was, then it didn't work. Set back to dhcp, and still doesn't work.

i know this is a basic question but if anyone can help that would be great...

thankyou..

Guy

ping is the command to use for pinging, but ifconfig is the command instead of ipconfig. There are options for each that you can check in the man pages.

Once you've run the commands can you post the output you get from ifconfig and from pinging your DHCP server?

Can you tell us
a. how you configured the static IP and
b. how you configured it back to dhcp?

The most likely cause I can think of for this issue, is that if you manually edited the ifcfg-eth0 file, you did something wrong. This is not uncommon, because the system is picky about that config file.

If you believe this to be the problem, I'd suggest trying to get a hold of a virgin ifcfg-eth0 file that you know works with DHCP. (I'm sure MANY of the users here can post one.)

If that doesn't fix it, or if you're pretty sure thats not the problem all together, please post more information for us to check out. A good start would be that file I've mentioned above. Assuming the same filesystem between your OS and mine (fedora 2) the file will be located in "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts"

Copy and paste that, and let us look at it.

Howdy,

a. how you configured the static IP and
I went into applications, system settings, network, then clicked static, entered the correct data..
b. how you configured it back to dhcp?
just click on dhcp in the same window.

However, when i went to the network-script folder there was no ifcfg-eth0 file. Rather strange.

Ahh fixed the problem, somehow it deleted the file.

Went new, set statically, it saved a new cfg file.

problem solvered.

thankyou all for your help.

Guy