On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 23:59 +0800, LC wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make a router using a FC4. I have 2 NICs in the machine. > Install FC4 using minimium. Eth0 is set to DHCP, connected to an ethernet > modem and ETH1 has IP 192.168.1.1, netmask 255.255.255.0 connected to a > switch. Installation was a success and rebooted the box. Clients machines > are unable to ping 192.168.1.1. But when i unplug the modem and reboot, > clients are ablt to ping 192.168.1.1. I realised if the box booted up both > ETH0 and ETH1, clients are able to ping 192.168.1.1. But if i ifdown ETH0 > and ifup ETH0, clients are able to get reply from 192.168.1.1. > > Can someone tell me what should I do? Perhaps this is the initscripts bug that causes eth0/eth1 to get assigned to the two cards randomly? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187550 Try the initscripts package from updates-testing Paul.
