[CentOS] IP Problems - Address won't stick on reboots!

Sun Jun 12 00:02:16 UTC 2005
Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz at optonline.net>

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:52 -0500, Scott Heisler wrote:
> Centos 4.0
> P4 Dual Xeon
> 2gig Ram
> One 100mb NIC
> 
> The problem is that the nic won't hold a fixed IP address.  What I mean
> is that if I refresh it, after booting up by typing "ifdown eth0" and
> then "ifup eth0" - it then reflects the correct IP address.  However, it
> won't 'have' and IP address upon boot.  Also, it seems to hang on the
> logger service starting up.  It sits there attempting to start logger
> for like 3-4 minutes (timed!).  I suspect this problem is most likely
> related to the IP problem.
> 
> I've tried moving the network connection to a dedicated HUB and still no
> luck.
> 
> What is the correct config file to edit to set the IP address correctly?
> I tried editing the one in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts - but that
> didn't fix my problem.
> 
> Thanks.
> Scott
> _______________________________________________
Try netconfig.

Ted