pb> me and a friend of mine both use redhat 6.0 on a toshiba 320 CDT pb> with a xircom realport ethernet and modem adaptor. the problem is pb> this: we use this thing a the university on the network, but for pb> getting an ip-adress we have to connect to a dhcp server (NT) With pb> me it works properly, this NT server matches MAC adress and pb> hostname to give you an IP. With this friend of mine we seem to pb> have made all the proper settings, using netcfg, but it doesn't pb> work, I get an IP just by turning on my computer and booting linux pb> , he has to run ifup eth0 to get his IP. Does anyone know what we pb> are doing wrong here, we want to get this IP at boot..... so you pb> don't have to login as root to run the ifup command......? Two things to try... 1. Look at /etc/sysconfig/network and make sure there is a line that says "NETWORKING=yes". This is sort of the master on/off switch for networking for the /etc/rc.d/* scripts. 2. RH 6.0 does indeed use /sbin/pump instead of dhcpcd for the DHCP client. Not actually understanding that, I was having a ton on random problems getting my DHCP to work properly after reboot, after resume, after PCMCIA card eject/insert, etc. Although RH 6.0 errata don't mention anything like the problems I was having, there is an updated RPM for "pump" on their errata site. I installed it and my problems instantly vanished. (You might think that this would either apply to both of you or to neither, but it might also be configuration dependent. So, the questions you both answered independently long, long ago when installing/upgrading RH 6.0 might have been answered slightly differently. Unfortunately, these days this can lead to a Microsoftification of your configuration.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter) PGP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3
