On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jay Kline wrote:
> I turn on my computer on a network that has no DHCP server The DHCP
> request fails on boot, so eth0 is not set up. I manually set eth0 with
> the correct ip, netmask, and broadcast. I set up routing correctly.
> Then, I try and ping the gateway.  Nothing. I try and ping the other
> computers on the network that I know are up.  Nothing.  So I save the
> configuration using netconf (using the exact same settings I just did
> manually) and go to init level 1, then back to init 5, and it magicly
> works.  This seems somewhat like a bug, and knowing RedHats reputation
> with pump, they may have done something strange with ISC's client.
> So, my question is not "how do I set an ip address manually" its "what
> is dhcpcd doing so that I cannot set an ip address manually"

Works for me.

On a 7.3 box with a Tulip card, I yanked the network cable, booted it into
single user, and ran 'ifup eth0'. It failed, of course. I plugged the
cable back in, assigned an ip with ifconfig, and it just worked(tm).

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