[CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

[MHR]

On Feb 1, 2008 6:08 AM, frankly3d-centos
<frankly3d-centos at utvinternet.com> wrote:
> Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server)
>
> loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip.
>
>
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98
>           inet addr:169.254.66.122  Bcast:169.254.255.255
> Mask:255.255.0.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::204:61ff:fe72:ab98/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
>           RX packets:60058 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:66564 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:11387965 (10.8 MiB)  TX bytes:45451041
> (43.3 MiB)
>           Interrupt:193
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:2340 (2.2 KiB)  TX bytes:2340 (2.2 KiB)
>

What is your system setup?  Is it a LAN on the inside of a router?  Do
the systems exist inside and outside the router?

Need more information for this to be useful.

mhr