On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Haines Brown wrote about, network configuration does not stick:
> I have a machine that looses network configuration when rebooted. The
> two items I must redo each time the Linux server is rebooted are
>
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
> route add default gw 192.168.1.1
>
> I also see that when I start X and look at the situation with netcfg,
> under Interfaces, I'm told that eth0 is
> and "unmanaged device." I can't edit such unmanaged devices in netcfg.
> What does this mean, that netcfg is not owner of the network
> configuration files?
Quite possably it does mean that, root has to configure interfaces of such
caliber.
> I'm running RH 6.1. The docs in hand don't tell me enough about the
> mechanism of the init program to setup the networking.
Redhat defines network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network.
You could edit all the lines into /etc/rc.d/rc.local as well, then it will
get started at bootime untill you lrean more about how redhat jumps from
one /etc/rc dir to another during bootime.
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