No Ethernet Connection At Boot

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 17:59 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> 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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is ONBOOT = YES

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0

does 

service network restart

turn it on or off?

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