Determining IP information for lo... failed

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sat Oct 13 01:27:36 UTC 2007


Peter Horst wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Peter Horst writes:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> You probably have the BOOTP environment variable set somewhere. Grep 
>> for BOOTP in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*
>>
>> You'll find several references to the BOOTP environment variables. 
>> You're looking for something that sets it.
>>   
> 
> Hm. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup has:
> 
> # Old BOOTP variable
> if [ "${BOOTP}" = "yes" ]; then
>    BOOTPROTO=bootp
> fi
> 
> if [ "${BOOTPROTO}" = "bootp" -o "${BOOTPROTO}" = "dhcp" ]; then
>    DYNCONFIG=true
> fi
> 
> 
> That's about the closest I can find.
In system-config-network, when editing a physical connection, is the 
automatically obtain ip address settings with=bootp ?

set|grep boot could tell you if it is set currently ?

DaveT.




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