On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 08:32, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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 ] Alexander, here is the information you requested: /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING=4=yes HOSTNAME=mercury.spears.org GATEWAY="10.0.1.4" GATEWAYDEV=eth0 FORWARD_IPV=yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=10.0.1.255 IPADDR=10.0.1.16 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.0.1.1 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY=10.0.1.4 HWADDR=00:80:c7:99:be:8c /etc/sysconfig/nework-scripts/route-eth0: GATEWAY0=10.0.1.4 NETMASK0=255.255.255.0
