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10-Feb-2005, 01:59 PM #1
Linux Networking And Other Issues
This is my first linux box i setup red hat 9, and now when i try to activate the enet card it wont work. the enet is a 3com enet card, Linux auto installed the drivers,
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10-Feb-2005, 02:01 PM #2
what is the output of 'ifconfig'
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10-Feb-2005, 02:07 PM #3
I'm not at the computer right now, but if I can recall it reads the eth0 and loopback. Can't remember the details. Once I get to the machine I'll post all the details.
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12-Feb-2005, 01:15 PM #4
here is the output of 'ifconfig'

eth0 Link encap"Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:0A:F2:F5
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1495 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1495 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:101585 (99.2 Kb) TX bytes:101585 (99.2 Kb)
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12-Feb-2005, 02:12 PM #5
You need to login as root at a xterminal and run netconfig.
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12-Feb-2005, 03:18 PM #6
Ok I ran netconfig. I setup the network using DHCP. It went back to the terminal sceen and didn't change anything.
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12-Feb-2005, 04:19 PM #7
I assume you have a DHCP server on your network. Try restarting your network service.
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12-Feb-2005, 04:58 PM #8
Ok, I found out that I didn't install DHCP..

how do you restart the network service?

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12-Feb-2005, 05:24 PM #9
Well you could just reboot your computer. I can never remember if you have to restart the service or just do an ifconfig up.

All your services are located in /etc/rc.d/init.d
If you want to stop/start/restart or list the status of a service just type the service name and what you want to do.

servicename stop|start|restart|status

You may just be able to do a
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
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12-Feb-2005, 07:15 PM #10
Try this:service network restart
If you want to renew an IP address type:
ifdown eth0
ifup eth0

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12-Feb-2005, 07:25 PM #11
Ok I tried the service network restart and when it was trying to bring back up the eth0 interface it said Determining IP information for eth0.. failed
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12-Feb-2005, 09:14 PM #12
Try setting an ip address manually and see if you can connect to your network that way.
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