F8 Network Woe
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Mon Dec 10 18:51:02 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:08 +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:36:22PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
> >
> > I would switch off NM altogether -
> > use
> > service NetworkManager stop
> > chkconfig NetworkManager off
> > service NetworkManagetDispatcher stop
> > chkconfig NetworkManagetDispatcher off
>
> All done, as you suggested ...
>
> > That way it will be stopped in your current system and will not
> > restart after re-booting
>
> Indeed, it didn't restart on boot, but neither did the network. During
> the 'init' time it produced the familiar message:
>
> Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.1.6 [FAILED]
>
> and didn't bring the network up. However, as soon as it was up:
>
> # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.6 up
> # route add default fw 192.168.1.126 eth0
Uh, shouldn't that be "route add default gw 192.168.1.126"? You don't
need to specify a device for it.
> brought everything on-line. Now why won't it do it during the book sequence
> and why does it stil think someone else is using the IP address. I can't
> find (ie using grep) "192.168" anywhere in sysconfig/* or sysconfig/*/*
> except for the specific instances in ifcfg-eth0
Uhm, hmmm. Try deleting the /var/lib/dhcpd/dhclient.leases* files. It
may be that the system is seeing leftovers from NM's dhclient calls and
thinks there's a lease existing for that IP.
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