F9 potential service network bug?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 19 19:01:07 UTC 2008


Paul Wouters (paul at xelerance.com) said: 
> Mine was from a non-LiveCD. The ifcfg files generated look fine:
> 
> # Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> HWADDR=00:d0:b7:85:f6:03
> ONBOOT=no
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=bofh.xelerance.com
> 
> # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=static
> HWADDR=00:0c:76:bc:9b:d1
> IPADDR=193.110.157.17
> NETMASK=255.255.255.248
> ONBOOT=yes
> 
> eth0 has (or had) no link during install.
> 
> To be it looked like despite being confgured with BOOTPROTO=static, the
> avahi daemon and NetworkManager got started, and one of them started
> doing dhcp. The static IP did appear as an additiona IP on the eth1
> interface, but since the DHCP was the main address, my public ip address
> changed.

ONBOOT=no means that NM won't try to automatically bring it up. That
may be what you're seeing.

Bill




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