This is a rather wierd problem.
I have a machine with a DLINK 538DX ethernet NIC dual booting windows and Linux
(Redhat 6.2). The card uses the rtl8139.o module.
(This is what it uses on the other machines in my network)
The card has been assigned an IP of a.b.c.d
The /etc/hosts file is empty.
The network starts properly, showing eth0 coming up.
[root@machine]#ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
<snip>
This is the only interface shown.
[root@machine]# ping a.b.c.d
<gets ping response>
[root@machine]#/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
[root@machine]#ping 127.0.0.1
<No response>
[root@machine]#ping a.b.c.d
<gets ping response>
[root@machine]#ifconfig eth0 down
[root@machine]#ping a.b.c.d
<gets no ping response>
[root@machine]#ifconfig eth0 a.b.c.d
The resource is temporarily unavailable.
My question is why this wierd behaviour? I can ping the local ip, but
cannot access the network. If the card is not detected, then no ip
should be assigned. and if it is detected, then it should show in the
ifconfig output.
Could this be because the machine is being booted into Linux through loadlin? All the
other machines have lilo in the MBR.
Is this a known issue?
Devdas Bhagat
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