problems connecting to the net.

[M. David Minnigerode]

lynn sears wrote:

> output from /sbin/ifconfig has nothing to say about eth0 only localhost info
> # /sbin/ifconfig/ eth0 up  =  resource temporarily unavailable
>
> these machines can't ping each other but can ping themselves
>
> after I # /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart = shutting down eth0  OK;
> setting network parameters  OK;
> bringing up lo = OK; bringing up eth0 = OK
>

If eth0 is not showing up in the output of ifconfig then it's
not getting started (even though the network script says ok)...
Also since it's not in the routeing table we know it's not getting started.


Umm... what's in the following files:

/etc/conf.modules
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0


dave