rh7.2 uses this nifty new network profile thingy that seems to be biting people in the butt. They have moved things around a bit. I am not sure why you are seeing this problem but I bet it has something to do with it. "# neat &" is the new gui tool and it does some links for ifcfg-* in the /etc/sysconf/networking/.... directory now.
-----Original Message----- From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ifconfig problem and rh 72 hello list i have a machine, with a basicly out-of-the-box rh72 system, running some server stuff like samba or squid for some reason, i sometimes have to change its ip address. usually, with former releases or versions of rh, i just modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 changing ip address, network, broadcast and mask to fit my needs, then a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart, et voila... with rh 72 (even tried with last kernel package) this doesn't work. what happens is that the NIC keeps the same old address. but if i reboot instead of just restarting the network, then the new address is taken. thought of a problem of some active connections or servers but it's not that. i investigated further and found that the new address i want to set up gets still valid even if it doesn't appear with ifconfig. let's explain that : i boot the server : ifconfig eth0 shows address 192.168.1.1 netstat -nr shows 192.168.1.0 through eth0 network services run fine then i do : ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 172.16.1.1 up ifconfig eth0 still shows address 192.168.1.1 netstat -nr still shows 192.168.1.0 through eth0 but also show 172.16.0.0 through eth0 what's strange now is that i can ping both 192.168.1.1 (which is the old address i wanted to remove but still appears) and 172.16.1.1 (which is the new address i want but doesn't appear) arp -a shows nothing (meaning that both addresses are local) i reboot the server i do a route del -net 192.168.1.0/24 then ifconfig eth0 down then ifconfig eth0 172.16.1.1 up now everything is right, ifconfig shows the right ip address and netstat -nr the right route i think this looks like a bug ? btw i have the problem with several machines and yes, i checked for duplicates and all, and yes it's easily reproductible tia, - * - * - * - * - * - * - Bien sûr que je suis perfectionniste ! Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'être mieux ? Thierry ITTY eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
