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

Fri Feb 1 14:08:33 UTC 2008
frankly3d-centos <frankly3d-centos at utvinternet.com>

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)