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10-19-2007, 06:00 PM	#1
alephgamma LQ Newbie Registered: Oct 2007 Posts: 1 Rep:	RTNETLINK and ifup I was trying to configure a static IPv6 address on a RHEL 5 box and now keep getting the following: RTNETLINK answers: File exists after an ... # ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 What does the error message mean? Here's the ifcfg-eth0: # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:0c:29:ff:e7:da ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=1 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1

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