Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-31 Thread Rock
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:36:36 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > note thats 5 miles in open space. > > you said the router is in the middle of the house, what all is between > it and your 'BBQ' ? The Negear N600 router is in the middle of the house, and it's only about 18 dBi and, I think, about

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-31 Thread Rock
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:04:05 +0300, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > By the way the nanobridge is nice but since it has so much Dbm in it you > should try to open the case and verify what bugs are inside to make sure > it's not "just works" like sisco. I'm not sure *what* that meant! _

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-26 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 07/24/2013 05:01 PM, Rock wrote: > Is there an easy way to tell which NIC is being used for a > connection? Or to tell one NIC to win over the other? Or in order to migrate just do a bond device on the machine and add both wlan and eth to the same bond and let the kernel check the HA of the netw

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-26 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey there, You need to remeber the command "pkill" this will release CentOS or Fedora from any dhclient. if you do have networkmanager installed on the system just stop or kill it. it's pretty simple and easy to understand. By the way the nanobridge is nice but since it has so much Dbm in it you

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-26 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes? Rock wrote: > On

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-26 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rock Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:01 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes? On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:03:00 -0700

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/24/2013 7:01 AM, Rock wrote: > Understood. The Nanobridge M2 may be far more than I need. > But, it should work as it's advertised to go five miles. > All I need is a few hundred feet. note thats 5 miles in open space. you said the router is in the middle of the house, what all is between i

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 07/24/2013 10:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > on the router, see if it will accept a fixed IP, rather than one > assigned by DHCP; if so, you can set it on the laptop. I'd also check > to see if you need to deal with NetworkManager to do that. I don't > know - I *loathe* NM, and am majorly a

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/24/2013 09:01 AM, Rock wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:03:00 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > >> you should be able to get 300 feet of mostly open space with a simple >> panel antenna > Understood. The Nanobridge M2 may be far more than I need. > But, it should work as it's advertised to go fiv

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread Rock
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:04:40 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > In any network subnet, a default gateway is required to talk to any > other subnet ... this is not a CentOS thing, it is a TCP/IP thing. I saved your wonderful explanation (so that I may re-read it whenever I need to make a gateway decisi

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread m . roth
Rock wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:03:00 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > I think my "original" problem was what you guys sensed from > the start. > > It was supremely frustrating having my manually typed eth0 > IP address being wiped out - but - apparently that was what > Network Manager was suppo

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:03:00 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > you should be able to get 300 feet of mostly open space with a simple > panel antenna Understood. The Nanobridge M2 may be far more than I need. But, it should work as it's advertised to go five miles. All I need is a few hundred feet.

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:07:30 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > my N600 has great range. mine is a wndr3700v3 Mine is the WNDR3400. It's in the center of the house and barely makes it to the front steps. In contrast, the Nanobridge M2 can go for five miles, at least according to what I've read.

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/24/2013 12:51 AM, Rock wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:09:29 -0400, Darr247 wrote: > >> I inferred you wanted to make the laptop talk to the ubiquiti >> nano through the RJ45 port in order to configure it. > Well, that is a necessary evil, so, yes, that is the first step, > to configure it.

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 10:15 PM, Rock wrote: > Netgear N600. ... it's far too anemic to make it outside by the BBQ where I > want to set up the computer. really? my N600 has great range. mine is a wndr3700v3, I'm using it as a bridge/access point rather than as a router. put it up high, on edge, wit

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 10:37 PM, Rock wrote: > Maybe I got the numbers wrong? > http://site.microcom.us/nbm2_datasheet > > Shouldn't that Nanobridge m2 be powerful enough to reach the 300 feet > or so to go from my BBQ to my home broadband router open "guest" > access point? that thing has a pretty narrow

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:09:29 -0400, Darr247 wrote: > I inferred you wanted to make the laptop talk to the ubiquiti > nano through the RJ45 port in order to configure it. Well, that is a necessary evil, so, yes, that is the first step, to configure it. But, I'll take up that configuration elsew

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:09:29 -0400, Darr247 wrote: > that would result in an EIRP of almost 13W, or about 30 times the > legal limit for licensed HAMs on channel 6 and below in the 2.4GHz band, > or 60 times the legal limit unlicensed, unless you use a highly > directional antenna. But that als

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:09:29 -0400, Darr247 wrote: > What brand/model is the home broadband router, by the way? Netgear N600. I bought it in a moment of weakness; but it's far too anemic to make it outside by the BBQ where I want to set up the computer. So, my goal is to connect the Nanobridge M

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Darr247
On 2013-07-23 10:34 PM, Rock wrote: > I only partially understand what I *think* you're trying to tell me as > I am clearly not a network guru. I *think* you're saying I should > first plug the laptop, by cat5 cable from eth0 of the laptop to the > home broadband router, and then write down what

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:14:02 -0400, Darr247 wrote: > But why not just see what IP, Gateway and DNS Servers your home router > gives eth0 via DHCP and duplicate those settings statically? (presuming > it's also the 192.168.1.x /24 network) I only partially understand what I *think* you're trying

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Darr247
On 2013-07-23 7:40 PM, Rock wrote: > Q: Should I set the NM gateway to the IP address of the radio/router? Yes. 192.168.1.20 should be fine if you're only using these settings to get the nanobridge configured. But why not just see what IP, Gateway and DNS Servers your home router gives eth0 via

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:40:05PM +, Rock wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:10:44 +, Rock wrote: > > > I didn't want to complicate things, but whenever I use the GUI from right > > clicking on the four bars, the same thing happens (eth0 disconnects after > > a few minutes): > > Maybe I wa

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:10:44 +, Rock wrote: > I didn't want to complicate things, but whenever I use the GUI from right > clicking on the four bars, the same thing happens (eth0 disconnects after > a few minutes): Maybe I was editing it wrongly. How does this look? http://i43.tinypic.com/n

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 4:10 PM, Rock wrote: > Am I correct in "assuming" the file to change is this one? > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > > And not this one? > /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 odd, the RHEL6 docs say that file should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-sc

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:05:23 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-NetworkManager.html That reference doesn't say much about what to set the gateway to: http://i41.tinypic.com/1z2n6uv.jpg Reading sect

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:02:18 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > service NetworkManager status will undoubtedly say its running Hi John, It doesn't even have to be queried as root; it *does* say it's running: $ service NetworkManager status => NetworkManager (pid 2455) is running... > so, set the ab

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Rock wrote: > If I set this to "no" and reboot, will it have any negative > implication for my normal wireless network (which I use all day)? It will not; it has effect only for eth0. Steve ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 3:57 PM, Rock wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:54:13 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> >Probably need NM_CONTROLLED=no in ifcfg-eth0. > $ sudo updatedb; locate ifcfg-eth0 > => /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > => /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 > > $ g

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 3:51 PM, Rock wrote: > => NM_CONTROLLED="yes" there ya go!(NM == NetworkManager) as root, service NetworkManager status will undoubtedly say its running (and its not something you want to stop as its required for wifi and such). so, set the above line to ="no" and you c

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:54:13 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > Probably need NM_CONTROLLED=no in ifcfg-eth0. $ sudo updatedb; locate ifcfg-eth0 => /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 => /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 $ grep NM /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:50:35 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > the interface is probably configured for DHCP via > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and your system is > undoubtedly running network-manager. I don't know *how* to tell if I'm running network-manager, but, I'm running whatev

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 2:59 PM, Fidel Dominguez wrote: > Try to stop network manager > service NetworkManager stop ; service nrtwork restart which will likely break your wifi. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast __

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Fidel Dominguez
Try to stop network manager service NetworkManager stop ; service nrtwork restart On Jul 23, 2013 2:54 PM, "Steve Thompson" wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Rock wrote: > > > Why? How do I stop this? > > (All I want is for eth0 to *stay* at the IP address I set it to!) > > finger > NetworkManag

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Rock wrote: > Why? How do I stop this? > (All I want is for eth0 to *stay* at the IP address I set it to!) finger > NetworkManager. Probably need NM_CONTROLLED=no in ifcfg-eth0. -steve ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/23/2013 2:46 PM, Rock wrote: > WHAT I WANT: > When I set eth0 to an IP address, I want eth0 to*stay* at that IP address! > > My question: > Q: Why does setting an eth0 IP address only last about 5 minutes on Centos? > What am I doing wrong? > What can I do to*keep* the IP address on eth0 tha

[CentOS] What on Centos is wiping out my eth0 IP address every 5 minutes?

2013-07-23 Thread Rock
QUESTION: Why does my Centos 6.4 laptop keep wiping out my eth0 IP address? SUMMARY: a) I set the IP address of eth0 b) Everything works fine for 2 to 5 minutes c) Then, that eth0 IP address is (somehow?) wiped out I frustratingly repeat that abc process (over and over and over again) BACKGROUND: