On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:08 +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:36:22PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote: > > > > I would switch off NM altogether - > > use > > service NetworkManager stop > > chkconfig NetworkManager off > > service NetworkManagetDispatcher stop > > chkconfig NetworkManagetDispatcher off > > All done, as you suggested ... > > > That way it will be stopped in your current system and will not > > restart after re-booting > > Indeed, it didn't restart on boot, but neither did the network. During > the 'init' time it produced the familiar message: > > Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.1.6 [FAILED] > > and didn't bring the network up. However, as soon as it was up: > > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.6 up > # route add default fw 192.168.1.126 eth0 Uh, shouldn't that be "route add default gw 192.168.1.126"? You don't need to specify a device for it. > brought everything on-line. Now why won't it do it during the book sequence > and why does it stil think someone else is using the IP address. I can't > find (ie using grep) "192.168" anywhere in sysconfig/* or sysconfig/*/* > except for the specific instances in ifcfg-eth0 Uhm, hmmm. Try deleting the /var/lib/dhcpd/dhclient.leases* files. It may be that the system is seeing leftovers from NM's dhclient calls and thinks there's a lease existing for that IP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
