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). -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500