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

[David Champion]

No references to dhcp in any of the ifcfg files. There's no ifcfg-eth1:1 
or anything like that. This first server has no ifcfg-eth0, the other 
one does, with BOOTPROTO=dhcp, but ONBOOT=no, so I don't think that's an 
issue.

Here's the ifcfg-eth1 (after I changed BOOTPROTO=static). I looked at 
the ifup script, looks to me like it's checking for the word "dhcp", and 
any other value it treats as a static address.

DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:18:8B:33:64:56
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=10.10.0.72
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=10.10.0.1
IPV6INIT=no


Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 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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