Hi Gordon, and others

yes, that's it !
we applied the initscripts update and everything works fine now
thanks a lot



A 10:44 02/03/02 -0800, vous avez écrit :
>On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 07:11, Thierry ITTY wrote:
>> 
>> 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. 
>
>Apply the initscripts errata update.  I believe they fix this problem.
>
>IIUC, 'ifconfig' and 'route' will probably be depreciated someday in
>favor of the 'ip' tool, part of the iproute2 package.  I think useful
>information is here:
>http://lartc.org/
>
>'ip' can manipulate all of the kernel's interface and routing features,
>which 'ifconfig' and 'route' can not.  If you change the configuration
>of an interface, and restart the network service on 7.2, look at the
>output of:
>ip addr show
>
>> 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)
>
>The 'ip' command above will show you what you want to know.
>
>> i think this looks like a bug ?
>
>In the initscripts, yes.
>
>
>
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        Thierry ITTY
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