On Thu May 11 2000 at 17:23, Robert Krueger wrote:
The reasons for your problems are now becoming evident...
> Now, I started the DSL in Gnome by selecting the eth0 interface connection,
> which froze the connection box, but it started DSL anyway. Here's the
> result of ifconfig at this point:
Looks good.
> Again, here is the routing tables before bringing up the DSL connection:
> Now here it is -after- the DSL is up:
(I wish you had improved the formating here :-)
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 64.209.10.12 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 64.209.10.13 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Looks fine.
> Here is the content of the /etc/conf.modules file.
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 tulip
> alias sound emu10k1
That also looks good.
> Ethernet 0 is obviously not being initialized at boot time, because it hangs
> up during the initialization attempt, and won't continue the boot process.
Hmm.
What happens if you do this (call the rc scripts directly):
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
Does this work with no complaints?
Also, try this:
ifdown eth0
ifup eth0
Perhaps you need entries for your IP addresses in /etc/hosts ?
> This would be my preferred way of doing this.
> The other way is to go into Gnome, and start the Interface Connection
> dialog, and choose eth0. When I do this, it performs similarly to the boot
gnome? No, it isn't gnome that you are using (gnome is simply a glorified
window/task manager), but an application (probably linuxconf) that has been set
up to be started from gnome.
> process, ie, it hangs up the Interface Connection Dialog, but when I
I'm wondering if it
> Right-Click to forciby close the Dialog, my DSL is up and running fine. The
> question of why it doesn't start up smoothly is why I'm here
Forget that brain-dead piece of **it of a config tool. It is misleading.
> Also, I took note of your "magic files". I don't know exactly what to do
> with these, but I felt I should include the content of both for you to look
> at. They are both very interesting. This must be what Network Configuration
> Utility deals with...
YES!! This is where the REAL configuration is done. All that gui tool does is
write them. Have a look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/network and you will
see that the config files in /etc/sysconfig/* are SOURCED by it.
These files are simply shell script fragments that set environment
variables.
> Anyhow, here's the result of /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> FORWARD_IPV4=no
> HOSTNAME=RAC
> GATEWAY=209.130.221.121
> GATEWAYDEV=eth0
That's all you need to specify. Get rid of the IPX crap that
linuxconf puts in there (unless, of course, you are using IPX
networking - which you aren't).
Your gateway address doesn't match. That would be a problem.
Comment it out, let dhcpd set this for you.
Your hostname there should be a fully qualified domain name.
> And here's the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> DEVICE="eth0"
> ONBOOT="no"
> BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
Thats' probably all you need in this file.
> Thankyou again for your help
The reason I don't like most config tools is becoming obvious, it
hides what is really going on.
Cheers
Tony
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