Linux Network weirdness

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
>>Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:55 PM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: Linux Network weirdness
>>
>>
>>Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>
>>>I try to enable an eth0 interface through vmware 4.0 on a Redhat ES 
>>>3.0 system.
>>>
>>>I get the following error:
>>>
>>>Error, some other host already uses address 132.224.82.57.
>>>
>>>Ok.. I checked, no other host is using it, I set this 
>>
>>vmware machine 
>>
>>>to use the bridged type connection.  I also triple checked my 
>>>ifcfg-eth0 file, it is all typed in correctly, no extra 
>>
>>spaces even on 
>>
>>>the end of the lines.
>>
>>Are you sure?  Something has that address in its ARP table or 
>>answers the bell.
>>
>>Keep in mind that lots of stuff is hidden if you're on a 
>>switch or VLAN, however, can you tcpdump it and see what's 
>>going on?  You can also check the "arp -e" output.
> 
> 
> Starting to look like a VMWare oddity?  I've got other VMWare machines
> that are happy, so don't know why this one isn't.
> 
> But, after I found the code I had to add to ifcfg-eth0 to make it not
> check for a cable connection, I changed my settings to dhcp, and low and
> behold.  I couldn't get an address.

Not sure what you mean.  You mean "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" or "ONBOOT=no"?
Couldn't get an address from DHCP?

> Btw - is my text coming across as 72 characters wide?

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Looking at my test line (and ignoring the cite marks), yup.  BTW, my
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