Bryce, If you set down exactly what you want to do, I'm happy to make a stab at it. Mind you, when I go through that process, it often magically sorts itself out before my eyes!
Cheers, Steve On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:59 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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