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

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 10:16 -0600, 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.

Is NetworkManager installed on these systems?  That would certainly mess
things up...

> 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.

BOOTPROTO=none is equivalent to BOOTPROTO=static AFAIK.

Jeff

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