[Cialug] RedHat ES 4 - static IP's?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Is there by chance an ifcfg-eth1:1 in your network-scripts folder that
is by chance has a BOOTPROTO=DCHP line it?

Grep network-scripts for BOOTPROTO=DHCP and see what it finds.


On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 10:16, David Champion wrote:
> I have couple of new servers with RedHat ES 4. During the setup process, 
>   I configured them to have a static IP address. When the system booted, 
> and again after I did a full up2date (600+ mb later...) they come up 
> with a DHCP address. If I do a "system network restart", they get the 
> static IP I assigned again.
> 
> The only thing I see odd is in the 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 (eth1 is is the first ethernet 
> port labelled GB 1 on these Dell 2950's, and GB 2 is apparantly eth0 - 
> but that's another story) - is  it has "BOOTPROTO=none". I'm used to 
> seeing "BOOTPROTO=static". I looked in the RH knowledgbase, and a lot of 
> the documentation doesn't mention "static" anywhere, but is is sometimes 
> shown on other articles.
> 
> Any ideas on this?
> 
> -dc
> 
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