weird network problem in FC4

Amadeus W. M. amadeus84 at cablespeed.com
Wed Jul 6 18:33:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:15:26 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:48 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:20:54 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> 
>> > Am Mi, den 06.07.2005 schrieb Amadeus W. M. um 15:52:
>> >> >>     Option 3: Router = 24.35.40.1
>> >> > 
>> >> > ---------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >> > 
>> >> > That looks like the setting for the default gateway to me.
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> It looks to me too, but why doesn't it go into the routing table? The
>> >> network start-up scripts maybe? Where should I look? Yeah, I didn't
>> >> mention something, all this happened after a power outage.
>> > 
>> > /etc/sysconfig/network
>> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>> > 
>> > These files hold the information how the network scripts should act.
>> > Maybe past the settings if you don't see a fault there your own.
>> > 
>> > Alexander
>> > 
>> 
>> I know. All the more strange. I just went through the steps again (use
>> dhcp with the network gui, save settings, stop/start network) and here's
>> the results:
>> 
>> 5) root:~> route -n
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>> 24.35.40.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.248.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
>> 6) root:~> more /etc/sysconfig/network
>> NETWORKING=yes
>> HOSTNAME=phoenix
>> 7) root:~> more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>> DEVICE=eth0
>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>> BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
>> HWADDR=00:03:6d:13:71:91
>> IPADDR=192.168.1.10
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> NETWORK=192.168.1.0
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> DHCP_HOSTNAME=phoenix
>> USERCTL=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> 
>> The same info is in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices and profile.
>> So perhaps the save in the network gui doesn't work properly. Still...
> 
> Amadeus,
> 
> Possibly.  Here are /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 from my
> dhcp enabled FC3 box:
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> 
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> #BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
> #IPADDR=192.168.1.99
> #NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> #NETWORK=192.168.1.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> #GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> IPV6INIT=no
> 
> I've played with it in the past, thus the commented entries.  Try
> commenting out the gateway address.  It might be
> in /etc/sysconfig/network as well.  Then service network restart.
> 
> Bob...

Thanks for the post, obviously this script must be at least part of the
problem, but why doesn't it get saved from the GUI? I'm beginning to
suspect the file system got corrupted during the unclean shutdown when the
power outage occurred. 





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