system-config-network problem (fixed)

[Gerhard Magnus]

>>> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 13:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>>> I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are
>>>> ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network.
>>>> Everything is working normally (access across the LAN and to the Internet)
>>>> except on the machine on which I have just installed FC10. Something keeps
>>>> replacing the Netmask entry I want for eth0 (255.255.255.0) with the
>>>> Gateway address (192.168.1.11). This occurs in both the
>>>> system-config-network widget and the
>>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. So I can't reach the
>>>> Internet from this box (although I can ssh to the other machines.) This
>>>> rewriting of the Netmask field keeps occurring in both places no matter
>>>> where (or how many times) I make the corrections. The network-scripts
>>>> directory does not contain a route-eth0 file which, in my understanding,
>>>> is another place where this problem might be occurring.  Thanks for the
>>>> help!
>>> ----
>>> terrible, stupid bug of initial release - you probably want to edit
>>> manually instead of using system-config-network until you get updates
>>> installed.
>>
>> What file(s) do I need to update manually? Or else, how can I run the
>> first yum update with the system in this condition?
> ----
> edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and fix it, then type
> 'service network restart'
>
Thanks -- I'm running the first yum update now. After correcting 
ifcfg-eth0 I had been rebooting (and thereby regenerating the same problem 
all over again!) instead of doing the crucial step "service network 
restart".