[CentOS] Network issues with CentOS 5.2

[Lanny Marcus]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Joey Mendez <jmendez at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> I appreciate your reply to my email. The steps ou have given me are things
> that I have done and are already in place. I still cannot get the eth to
> activate unless I issue it a static IP it for some reason will not activate
> under the DHCP selection. Has anyone ever experienced this.
>
> If I do assign it an IP it will activate but still has no internet
> connection. I can ping itself but cannot ping any machine outside of it or
> have a machine outside be able to ping it.

Jose: Two things: (a) please do not TOP POST on this mailing list. (b)
I wonder if the NIC is working properly? If it's an onboard NIC,
can you disable it and install another NIC, to see if you have
connectivity? If it's a PCI card, pull it out and install another NIC,
preferably another model. Lanny