Hi There,
I am having a weird problem - never seen it before.

my file
is being *ignored* by RH9.

when I do a reboot, or a
When I first set up the system I gave it the address
and that IP address has *remained* across reboots and network restarts, despite the aforementioned file containing:
does anyone have any ideas why this might be or how to fix it? if it just happened at reboot I might have thought there was something stupid appended to a startup script that changes it back each time but it also happens after network restarts, as I said.

many thanks
eccles

hi there

well it surpirses me too,i have used this file extensively for seting up the network

what u can do is
run
setup
in a shell then set ur ip adresss from there and see if that works
also check the permissions for the ifcfg-eth0 file

regards

The file "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" is used by the RH network setup script to setup your network and remember the original settings. It is used by "/usr/bin/system-config-network" to setup your network. The file may be called a differnet name in RH9 but it would be very similar. Probably start with rh*

Hi there,
thanks for your replies. I'd already tried running the 'setup' program - and all that does is rewrite the ifcfg-eth0 file... which the network system then proceeds to take no notice of when I restart the network (or even restart the server). Any other ideas? I mean where might the thing be reading its config from if not from there anyway? :/

Definitely no DHCP service running anywhere?

well i had faced the same problem on redhat 9.I also failed many times but last i gao a solution

#rpm -e redhat-config-network --nodeps ---to delete this rpm package
#rpm -e netconfig --nodeps ------ " " "

now again install those rpm 's .If it is redhat9 then it must be in 1st or 2nd installation cd.

# rpm -ivh netconfig-xxx.rpm
#rpm -ivh redhat-config-network-xxx.rpm

Hope this helps

what about the permisions and in what run level are u booting

run
service network restart
and see what u get in
/var/log/messages

regards

Check the following file
/etc/conf.d/net
the startup scripts read this to setup network interface.

So I've been following this thread, and I have the same problem, but there is a DHCP server running on my network; I just don't want this computer to use it. However, the DHCP address aquisition seems automatic, and I can't figure out how to make it stop doing it. This is what my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks like:

DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.8.15
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.8.1

Are there configuration options I'm missing? I've created this file both manually and with the 'setup' utility, rebooted, reset the network, all to no avail. /var/log/messages happily reports that it's finding a DHCP server and using it to configure my interface. What gives?

Oh, I forgot to mention, I did try re-installing the redhat-network RPMs as suggested, but that didn't do the trick. I feel like I'm probably missing some simple configuration step....

Do you use a broadband connection? If you do you can set the modem up to be a DHCP server and then use DHCP to setup your IP address and gateway server.

I'm afraid I don't understand how that benefits me. I have a DHCP server on my network, and the RedHat box sees it and configures to it properly, if that was a working paradigm for me. But this box will be functioning as a server, and as such needs to have a static IP address. I could probably work around it by either setting a ridiculously long lease expiration, or reserve an address at the DHCP server, etc. I just figured there must be a more straightforward way to configure a static IP address, and take the DHCP service out of the mix entirely for that particular network interface, since it's not necessary (or really desired, for that matter ).

Anyway, thanks for the response. I'll keep poking around to see what I can find.

Cheers,
Kevin

I was wondering why you are setting a static IP instead of using DHCP.
The network setup tool should have set this to read the data from this file at startup. I am not sure it why it doesn't. More thought needed.

I got a hand from the good people over at linux.redhat.misc and comp.os.linux.networking.

# find /etc/sysconfig -name ifcfg-eth0 -print | xargs ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 102 Jul 16 11:45 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 102 Jul 16 11:45 /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 Jul 16 00:33 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

The last two had the proper settings for the static IP address, but the first one was still pointing to DHCP. I changed the networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 file to mirror the other two, and restarting the network updated my interface properly. All's well that ends well, I suppose.

Kevin