Determining IP information for eth0 failed

[Jeff Vian]

St0rM wrote:

>> In /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 I have: USERCTL=yes 
>> PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=00:40:f4:6f:b4:90 
>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>> (Information for NETMASK, DOMAIN, IPADDR, DHCP_HOSTNAME, GATEWAY, 
>> NETWORK and BROADCAST
>> seem to be missing. Should I fill in these myself,(and with which 
>> values), or should
>> DHCP/something else do this for me?) 
>
>
> At least IPADDR and NETMASK should really be there...

He is using DHCP.
With that he should not manually assign the information you ask for.  He 
also should not assign the nameservers by default unless his admin has 
messed up the dhcp config and it is not handing out addresses and other 
required information properly.

However one line that is missing from his file that is in mine by 
default is "   ONBOOT='yes'  "  This tells the system to activate the 
interface at boot time.