FC5 Network nightmare

[Antonio Montagnani]

2006/4/21, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>
> > 2006/4/21, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>:
> >> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> >>
> >>> On my box acting as a router I have two NIC
> >>>
> >>> eth0 is the onboard NIC (marvell 1Gbit)
> >>> eth1 is the additional 10Mbit NIC (realtek 8029) for modem connection.
> >>>
> >>> Sometimes upon booting I cannot connect to the modem and also pinging
> >>> it is impossible, I get an ureachabale host.
> >>> I reboot the machine and it works...
> >>> I made a short investigation and
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> I see that HWadrr and inet6 address are reversed..
> >>> what does it mean???? help please
> >>
> >> It means you need the initscripts from updates-testing:
> >>
> >>         yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update initscripts
> >
> > more and more confused:
> >
> > now I have in networking devices
> > Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> > # for the documentation of these parameters.
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > PEERDNS=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> > HWADDR=00:11:d8:bf:9f:05
> >
> > and in networking scripts....
> > Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> > # for the documentation of these parameters.
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > PEERDNS=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> > HWADDR=00:11:d8:bf:9f:05
> >
> > and if the issue is already known, where is the solution?? in
> > updates-testing initscript???
>
> Yes.
>
> I wouldn't try to repair the damage at this point.  I'd do this:
>
> (1) Install the initscripts update.  This will fix the random swapping of
> NIC device names.  None of the other suggestions work reliably.
>
> (2) In system-config-network, delete all hardware devices and associated
> interfaces.  If you DHCP, clean out /var/lib/dhclient.
>
> (3) Reboot.  This will allow initscripts to detect the NICs the way it
> wants.
>
> (4) Recreate the interfaces in system-config-network (if necessary).
>
> --
>                 Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>
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Tnx Matthew

I have followed your procedure.

and everything is o.k.
...I am not sure but iniscript had to be updated in FC4, same problem
when multiple cards...

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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag