<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Braden McDaniel <<a href="mailto:braden@endoframe.com">braden@endoframe.com</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 class="Ih2E3d">On 12/26/08 2:53 PM, Alain Roger wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, i have setup a static IP for my F10 computer (which will be use later as DB server for test development). therefore i modify the following 3 files: /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 i setup my mask to 255.255.255.0 as usual and after i reboot F10. after login as user, F10 as setup eth0 inactive. when i press the button activate, eth0 is activated but the mask turns to my default gateway address... and internet does not work. where is the problem ? </blockquote> </div> Did you use system-config-network to check your settings? If so, it could have hosed them for you in exactly this manner. See: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469434" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469434</a> Manually edit the files to set the proper netmask; and don't let system-config-network touch them. :-/ -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <<a href="mailto:braden@endoframe.com" target="_blank">braden@endoframe.com</a>> <<a href="http://endoframe.com" target="_blank">http://endoframe.com</a>> Jabber: <<a href="mailto:braden@jabber.org" target="_blank">braden@jabber.org</a>> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div> Hi Braden, in fact the system-config-network is for now the only way (for me) to activate my settings... as new to F10, i do not now how to activate the eth0 from console :-( -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows XP x64 SP2 / Fedora 10 KDE 4.2 PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.10 PHP 5.2.6 C# 2005-2008