network config

[Mike Wright]

On 07/22/2011 08:37 AM, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After consulting the handbook and various further internet sites I
> am a bit lost:
>
> starting up my fedora system it only activates network interface lo.
> no other network interface is brought up until I login and start it
> with "ifup eth0".
>
> Quite bad, if you expect to reach the system via ssh. Any idea how
> I'll get that interface up together with the machine, without having
> a user login and activate it?
>
> I have
> /etc/sysconfig/network:
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=tola.fritz.box
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> DEVICE="eth0"
> BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> ONBOOT=yes
> NM_CONTROLLED="no"
> TYPE=Ethernet
>
> Rebooting doesn't enable eth0, only lo.

Do you have "network" enabled to run on boot?

"chkconfig network on"    # enable network scripts on boot
"service network start"   # start the network now

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