Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Bill Spears um 16:39: > On a new install, on a laptop, when trying to use the red hat network > configuration tool, I get the error, "Static routes file eth0 is > invalid." It turned out that IP addr. was ok, but netmask, broadcast > and gateway were wrong. I munged around in network and network-scripts > (/etc/sysconfig) and got it to the point where if I restart network > services, everything except gateway is ok. It comes up with 0.0.0.0, > which is not very useful. I can fix it with "route", but I'd like it to > work correctly. > > I don't know if this matters or is even unusual, but when the system is > booting, it fails to bring up eth0 and states that it will bring it up > later. eth0 is being brought up. > > Is there some particular file known as "the static routes file"? > Ideas? What is the content of following files: a) /etc/sysconfig/network b) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 c) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 (if you have such a file) Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 17:29:58 up 20:12, 7 users, 1.22, 1.28, 1.20 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]