[Fwd: Config Network Setting]

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 22:53 +0800, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I just have the problem of "Destination Host Unreachable" from eth1
> ( ping to other same network segment internal machine ) as the
> following setting :
> 
> [root at svr1 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=no
> [root at svr1 network-scripts]#
> 
> [root at svr1 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=static
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> IPADDR=192.168.0.254
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> [root at svr1 network-scripts]#
> 
> [root at svr1 network-scripts]# cat ../network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=svr1
> [root at svr1 network-scripts]#
> 
> So, what is the problem of the current setting ?
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looks OK except that I would recommend that you use a FQDN
in /etc/sysconfig/network and not just a name... i.e. srv1.mynetwork.com

obviously /dev/eth0 is not going to be loaded at boot time - but that
may be your intentions.
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> 
> BTW, what different between modify ifcfg-eth? and running the tools of
> "system-config-network" ?
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shouldn't be any difference as either should modify the
same /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file

system-config-network does have the ability to also edit your 'hosts'
file (/etc/hosts), you dns resolution configuration (/etc/resolv.conf)
at one session.

Craig