p8p1 ethernet won't connect to a network

[Fran Garcia]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
>
> I changed in the new server, but it does not make a network connection on
> one of the subnets at school.
>
> 1.  Instead of using eth0 as the default connection, the system wants to
> use p8p1.  I edited /etc/sysconf/network-scripts to change the device to
> eth0 and I took out the UUID line.  ifcfg-p8p1 was renamed to p8p1-ifcfg.
>
> 2.  My ifcfg-eth0 contains
>
> DEVICE="eth0"
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPAddess=136.16.167.11


IPADDRESS=  from ifcfg-eth0 should be upper case, shouldn't it?

also there is a missing R :  IPAdd_ess

HTH

:-)