Ed Greshko wrote:
Chu Tan wrote:
I've used fedora's network configuration tool to setup eth0 to use a
static IP address, however it always boot up using DHCP.
Here's my config files and I have tried ifdown and ifup on eth0 on
command line and it is still using the dhcp ip address.
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.2.3
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
Change BOOTPROTO=static
Hi Ed,
"static" is not a protocol.
I'm curious where you got that information. I've searched off and on
for years and never found that documented anywhere although I have seen
it used somewhat frequently and which may actually be a source of errors
in some scripts. From:
The Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide
Chapter 12. Network Scripts
BOOTPROTO=<protocol>, where <protocol> is one of the following:
none — No boot-time protocol should be used.
bootp — The BOOTP protocol should be used.
dhcp — The DHCP protocol should be used.
Additionally, grepping for BOOTPROTO in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*
finds no test for static.
Based on that I'd have to say BOOTPROTO=none is correct.
hth,
Mike Wright
