No Ethernet Connection At Boot

[Mark Sargent]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 17:59 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>came home 2 nights ago. Booted up, but, internet connection was down. 
>>Asked sharemate, who said he didn't un why(but said it was the same for 
>>him, apparently). Anyway, after some time, he said he had fixed it. But, 
>>it still wouldn't connect. I then deactivated/reactivated the connection 
>>and success. Now, when I boot up, I get the sane occurrence, and have to 
>>deactivate/reactivate the connection. I'm not seeing errors in boot.log, 
>>so what could this be..? This is happening only with eth0(internet/lan 
>>nic), eth1 is okay, as a client pc can obtain an ip through dhcp on this 
>>machine. Cheers.
>>
>>PC has 2 nics
>>eth0 is static set to 192.168.0.17
>>eth1 is static set to 192.168.1.1
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>>
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>is ONBOOT = YES
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>cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0
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>does 
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>service network restart
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>turn it on or off?
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>I would think that /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg might be better
>places to look for errors with respect to the eth0 interface at bootup
>
>Craig
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Hi All,

Craig,

>cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0 
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doesn't exist

service network restart brought me to where I didn't have a connection 
again, and had to deactivate/reactivate again. Will check those logs 
real soon. Cheers.

Mark Sargent