RH 9.0 refuses to install a STATIC network config

I have installed RH 9.0 twice on the same box
and for the network config I have selected STATIC
and entered my IP address in the appropriate
text widget. After each install I am getting DHCP
entries in the routing table. I am now trying to give
the machine a 'hand-job' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge
for all of the pervs out there), and I am finding
I must be missing something. The 'Network Tool'
indicates the correct IP address and hostname,
routing table just has the loopback entry, and the
boot output indicates eth0 init is failing. Here is my
ifcfg-eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=X.X.X.X
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK-X.X.X.0
BROADCAST=X.X.X.255
GATEWAY=X.X.X.1


Any ideas? What am I missing?

Thanks.

Never had this problem with RH 7.0/7.2

Bit Twister wrote:
>
> On 30 Jul 2003 13:37:16 -0700, KFWebb wrote:
> > I have installed RH 9.0 twice on the same box
> > and for the network config I have selected STATIC
> > and entered my IP address in the appropriate
> > text widget. After each install I am getting DHCP
> > entries in the routing table. I am now trying to give
> > the machine a 'hand-job' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge
> > for all of the pervs out there), and I am finding
> > I must be missing something. The 'Network Tool'
> > indicates the correct IP address and hostname,
> > routing table just has the loopback entry, and the
> > boot output indicates eth0 init is failing. Here is my
> > ifcfg-eth0:
> >
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=static
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > IPADDR=X.X.X.X
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > NETWORK-X.X.X.0
> > BROADCAST=X.X.X.255
> > GATEWAY=X.X.X.1
> >
> >
> > Any ideas? What am I missing?
>
> Yes, providing us with error messages in /var/log/messages after doing a
> service network restart ?

And perhaps explaining what a "DHCP entry in the routing table" is.
Routing table entries do not display their origin.

Did the driver even load correctly? What is the network card? What does
"lsmod" show?

The original question as posed suggests that it only does not work when
a static configuration is chosen and therefore that it does when DHCP is
selected. Is this the case?

Regards, Ian

Red Hat's GUI network setup tools haven't work right since
7.1. Use webmin or re-edit the files in /etc/sysconfig:
network
network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

THEN REPLACE any files in networking/* with symlinks to the
real files in network-scripts. The GUI RH tools create
inconsistant files in network-scripts and networking. The
boot-time and ifup, ifdown scripts generally defer to
network-scripts/* but the code is really bizzare, at least
in RH 7.3 and 8.0. I guess whoever was updating this
for RH must have changed jobs before the conversion was
complete, and didn't leave good notes for whomever is
maintaining it now. I think the updates are to support
IPv6 and the new "ip" configuration command.

(I don't have RH 9 but as I understand it 9.0 is really
8.1 and so probably has the same nasty scripts.)

And don't forget to update the /etc files: hosts,
resolv.conf, defaultroute, nsswitch.conf, ...

Good luck!

-Wayne

Bit Twister wrote:

> On 30 Jul 2003 13:37:16 -0700, KFWebb wrote:
>
>>I have installed RH 9.0 twice on the same box
>>and for the network config I have selected STATIC
>>and entered my IP address in the appropriate
>>text widget. After each install I am getting DHCP
>>entries in the routing table. I am now trying to give
>>the machine a 'hand-job' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge
>>for all of the pervs out there), and I am finding
>>I must be missing something. The 'Network Tool'
>>indicates the correct IP address and hostname,
>>routing table just has the loopback entry, and the
>>boot output indicates eth0 init is failing. Here is my
>>ifcfg-eth0:
>>
>>DEVICE=eth0
>>BOOTPROTO=static
>>ONBOOT=yes
>>IPADDR=X.X.X.X
>>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>>NETWORK-X.X.X.0
>>BROADCAST=X.X.X.255
>>GATEWAY=X.X.X.1
>>
>>
>>Any ideas? What am I missing?
>
>
> Yes, providing us with error messages in /var/log/messages after doing a
> service network restart ?

Thank you for all or your suggestions and requests for more info.
I now have the system to the point where eth0 is initialized
correctly at boot but can't ping a host on the same subnet -

PING 10.4.4.185 (10.4.4.185) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.4.4.179 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.4.4.179 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

Cable is OK - previously used by telecommuter to plug in her
laptop.

I followed Wayne's suggestion and audited all of the
files mentioned in his post - everything looks as it should.

I suspect the routing table entries are the culprit - should
there be a "Gateway" entry other than 0.0.0.0 for 10.4.4.0?

The 169.* address is coming from an 'if' stmt in the ifup
script - seems relatively innocuous.

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
10.4.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
0 lo
0.0.0.0 10.4.4.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0


/var/log/messages <snipped>:
Jul 31 08:46:05 linux-dev kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter
core team
Jul 31 08:46:05 linux-dev kernel: Linux Tulip driver version
0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
Jul 31 08:46:05 linux-dev kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:11.0
Jul 31 08:46:05 linux-dev kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 17 at
0xc8884000, 00:A0:CC:20:8A:8D, IRQ 9.


lsmod output:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 1 (autoclean)
vfat 13004 1 (autoclean)
fat 38808 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ide-cd 35708 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33728 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tulip 43840 1
ipt_REJECT 3928 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15096 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51892 2 [ext3]


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to get into trouble - amidst a sea of Micro$oft naysayers.


Wayne <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<bga6v7$iob$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Red Hat's GUI network setup tools haven't work right since
> 7.1. Use webmin or re-edit the files in /etc/sysconfig:
> network
> network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> THEN REPLACE any files in networking/* with symlinks to the
> real files in network-scripts. The GUI RH tools create
> inconsistant files in network-scripts and networking. The
> boot-time and ifup, ifdown scripts generally defer to
> network-scripts/* but the code is really bizzare, at least
> in RH 7.3 and 8.0. I guess whoever was updating this
> for RH must have changed jobs before the conversion was
> complete, and didn't leave good notes for whomever is
> maintaining it now. I think the updates are to support
> IPv6 and the new "ip" configuration command.
>
> (I don't have RH 9 but as I understand it 9.0 is really
> 8.1 and so probably has the same nasty scripts.)
>
> And don't forget to update the /etc files: hosts,
> resolv.conf, defaultroute, nsswitch.conf, ...
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Wayne
>
> Bit Twister wrote:
>
> > On 30 Jul 2003 13:37:16 -0700, KFWebb wrote:
> >
> >>I have installed RH 9.0 twice on the same box
> >>and for the network config I have selected STATIC
> >>and entered my IP address in the appropriate
> >>text widget. After each install I am getting DHCP
> >>entries in the routing table. I am now trying to give
> >>the machine a 'hand-job' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge
> >>for all of the pervs out there), and I am finding
> >>I must be missing something. The 'Network Tool'
> >>indicates the correct IP address and hostname,
> >>routing table just has the loopback entry, and the
> >>boot output indicates eth0 init is failing. Here is my
> >>ifcfg-eth0:
> >>
> >>DEVICE=eth0
> >>BOOTPROTO=static
> >>ONBOOT=yes
> >>IPADDR=X.X.X.X
> >>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> >>NETWORK-X.X.X.0
> >>BROADCAST=X.X.X.255
> >>GATEWAY=X.X.X.1
> >>
> >>
> >>Any ideas? What am I missing?
> >
> >
> > Yes, providing us with error messages in /var/log/messages after doing a
> > service network restart ?

Thank you very much for suggestions and hints. The problem
turned out to be the f__k__g network card. The box is now
on line.

Reply to /dev/rob0: No, I did not know there was a firewall
running on this box, thanks for the tip. I used lokkit to
disable all security features - this box is inside two
firewall protected networks so it would have been a little
overkill. I might re-enable some of the features as an
exercise for the curious.

My original complaint still stands about the RH 9.0 install
result. Installed twice as a STATIC configured box, with the
result being DHCP entries in ifcfg-eth0 file. Very
frustrating.

Thanks again to all who participated.

KFW



/dev/rob0 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>. ..
> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
> KFWebb wrote:
> > correctly at boot but can't ping a host on the same subnet -
> >
> > PING 10.4.4.185 (10.4.4.185) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > From 10.4.4.179 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> Who is this 10.4.4.179?
>
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> > 10.4.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> > 0.0.0.0 10.4.4.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
> Can you ping 10.4.4.1?
>
> > lsmod output:
> > Module Size Used by Not tainted
> > ipt_REJECT 3928 6 (autoclean)
> > iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
> > ip_tables 15096 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
>
> Did you know that you had a firewall running? It might not matter in
> this case, but it IS the number one most common cause of newbie
> networking woes.