On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote: > > > Some observations. > > When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration. I do static IP addresses, not DHCP. > > I ended up manually configuring the various /etc/sysconfig files. I forgot to do the GATEWAY configuration and it took me awhile to figure out why I wasn't able to connect to the server from outside the LAN. > > I also forgot to do the DNS settings. It's deja-vu all over again, going back to the older Red Hat Linux distros. > > Anyway, I wasn't able to find a configuration program like "netconfig" to help me out. Seems like a pretty big omission. > > Any thoughts? Am I missing something? ---- No doubt... assuming that you used anaconda to interactively guide you through the install (the default - not kickstart), after the installation completed and the computer restarts, you should have been led through 'firstboot' which would have you configure: - time (date/time/timezone/time server) - security (iptables firewall) - selinux - networking - static or dynamic - hostname - dns resolution (/etc/resolv.conf) - hosts (/etc/hosts) - users - authentication - create the first user (non-root) Guessing that you didn't look/watch the console on first boot but rather used ssh to connect from another station. If you haven't rebooted the system since the first boot, hook up a monitor/keyboard/mouse and see. Craig