<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 20, 2007 5:34 PM, Christopher K. Johnson <<a href="mailto:ckjohnson@gwi.net">ckjohnson@gwi.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Peter Lauri wrote: > Hi, > > I use FC8 on my T61. I set static addresses for everything, but still > dhcp tries to figure out the IP. And it ends up that the IP has > something like 169.X.X.X > > Initially when I do ifup eth0 it works fine, and I can use internet, > but after a minute (the indicator tells that "aquiring network > address") it goes from 85.X.X.X (that is the correct one) to 169.X.X.X > that is some internal address I think. > > Any hints? How can i turn off the dhcp stuff? > > /Peter </div></div>Hard to say without more information. But it may be NetworkManager doing that. Try this as root: service NetworkManager stop service NetworkManagerDispatcher stop ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 If that works correctly and stays statically configured then make disabling of NetworkManager permanent: chkconfig NetworkManager off chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher off If that does not do it, please send the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Chris <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank"></a> </blockquote></div> Isn't NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher stopped by default? And Network is "on" in a tipical FC8 networked box setup? I'd check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and make sure you have the line: BOOTPROTO=static Then turn off dhcpd: chkconfig dhcpd --level 35 off let's don't forget /etc/hosts. ~af