On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 00:59, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 10:01:46PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: > > I'm truing to run the DHCP daemon dhcpcd on my RH7.3 box. I have two > > ntework cards. When I run dhcpcd it kills off the eth0 device as if I'd > > done an "ifdown eth0" > > > > Anyone know what causes this and how I might fix it? > > dhcpcd is the client, dhcpd is the server.
Yes, hence my extreme puzzlement. What had happened, I can now say in the pleasant glow of hindsight, is that the Red Hat netconfig tool appears to have set the network card that I didn't ask it to configure (eth1) to get its IP address via DHCP. Not sure why from there, but bringing the dhcpcd daemon confuses everything to the point of eth1 vanishing from ifconfig. Hmmm. Simply fixed by re-entering the parameters for the eth1 network card. Red Hat used to supply thins nice too called netcfg that allowed you to configure network cards (change MTU, forwarding etc.) whatever your desktop was, and without having to load half of Gnome first. Is there another such utility hidden on the Red Hat system or is it a Gnome/KDE only distro these days? Vik :v)
