On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:04:10PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: > > dhcpcd is the client, dhcpd is the server. > > 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.
Yep, since dhcpcd is the client, I imagine it "found" the RH default of DHCP for eth1, took it down, tried to find a DHCP server and configure it. > Simply fixed by re-entering the parameters for the eth1 network card. Sounds reasonable. > 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? vi? :> Mike. -- Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < hmh> khazad-dum:~$ ls -l /usr/share/emacs/drain < hmh> ls: /usr/share/emacs/drain: No such file or directory * hmh now knows why his emacs is bloated. It is missing the drain....
