Re: [SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

2010-07-31 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Fri, July 30, 2010 2:24 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: edit /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 .. Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=10.1.2.255 IPADDR=10.1.2.250 ... Ben, Daniel, I was about to give up on this, as, no matter what, it was starting

Re: [SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au writes: On Fri, July 30, 2010 2:24 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: [...] I guess I need to disable dhclient, is that what caused the problem ? Well, if it is running it will keep renewing a lease, so yeah. Kill it if you have the static configuration ready and all.

[SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

2010-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have am old clunker with Centos 5.x, it appears it developed NIC probs, couldn't reach it, when screen plugged in, screen blank on power up, it gave some eth0 messages; I removed the 3COM PCI NIC, starred at it for a while whilst nodding my head, then, put it back in machine booted OK, BUT,

Re: [SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

2010-07-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au writes: I have am old clunker with Centos 5.x, it appears it developed NIC probs, couldn't reach it, when screen plugged in, screen blank on power up, it gave some eth0 messages; I removed the 3COM PCI NIC, starred at it for a while whilst nodding my head,

Re: [SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

2010-07-29 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Voytek, edit /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 Get it to look something like the following... # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=10.1.2.255 IPADDR=10.1.2.250 IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.1.2.0 ONBOOT=yes

Re: [SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

2010-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Fri, July 30, 2010 2:24 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: edit /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 Get it to look something like the following... # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=10.1.2.255 IPADDR=10.1.2.250 IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes