F8 Network Woe

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Dec 10 16:01:53 UTC 2007


Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I have a vanilla FC8 machine that was working into the Internet.  After
> several hours fighting network manager, I edited /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf
> and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 by hand and bob was my uncle.
> 
> Now, after a a PUP run to pull in updates, I can't get the network to start
> after the reboot:
> 
>    # service network start
>    Bringing up loopack interface:           [  OK  ]
>    Bringing up interface eth0:              [FAILED]
>    Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.1.6
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Uh, is it possible the DHCP server lease is still active?  What is the
status of that IP address?  Are there other machines on the network?



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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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