Thanks everyone for your help. I now know a lot more about linux networking and the various commands and files that control it.
However, I still didn't make an alternate configuration work :( I'll just leave that now to try again with a later version maybe... at least I can still type the manual configuration when I have to. Regards, Bryce Stenberg >-----Original Message----- >From: steve [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 4:33 p.m. >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' >setting? > >On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:14 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: >> Thanks for previous tips and linux commands. >> >> I'm slowly getting somewhere now. >> However, it turns out that each time I get the 'lease' section not quite >> what it wants in the dhclient.conf file the NetworkManager entries in >> syslog indicate it is disabling the device 'eth0': "hrnzlx02 >> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 40)." >> >> After that I can't keep trying until I reboot pc to reactivate the >> device. >> >> So, is there command to activate a device once it has been >> 'deactivated'? >> Restarting dhcp client is not sufficient. >> >> Regards, >> Bryce Stenberg >man ifconfig > >is the most generic answer I can give > >(as in ifcfg eth0 up) > >-- >Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> >http://www.greengecko.co.nz >MSN: [email protected] >GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
