Network Setup

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Bill Spears um 16:39:
> On a new install, on a laptop, when trying to use the red hat network 
> configuration tool, I get the error, "Static routes file eth0 is
> invalid."  It turned out that IP addr. was ok, but netmask, broadcast
> and gateway were wrong.  I munged around in network and network-scripts
> (/etc/sysconfig) and got it to the point where if I restart network
> services, everything except gateway is ok. It comes up with 0.0.0.0,
> which is not very useful. I can fix it with "route", but I'd like it to
> work correctly.
> 
> I don't know if this matters or is even unusual, but when the system is
> booting, it fails to bring up eth0 and states that it will bring it up
> later.  eth0 is being brought up.
> 
> Is there some particular file known as "the static routes file"?
> Ideas?

What is the content of following files:

a) /etc/sysconfig/network
b) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
c) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 (if you have such a file)

Alexander


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