SOLVED Re: Fedora 17 ipv4 inactive

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/20/2013 11:35 PM, Frank Murphy issued this missive:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:00:30 -0700
> Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
>
>> "ifconfig eth0 up" does NOT invoke the DHCP client software needed
>> to get an IP from your DHCP server. The old "ifup eth0" should do
>> it, or run the dhclient app yourself (as root).
>>
>> 	# ifconfig eth0 up
>> 	# dhclient eth0
>>
>
> Thanks Rick,
> Put me on the right track,
> it was dhclient-script got lost.
> re-install fixed it.

Glad to help, Frank. Happy you got it fixed.
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