On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:40 am, ccox at linuxsnob.com wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the first part here is intentional. If a DHCP > card is unable to find an address, than it isn't brought up at all. this > isn't specific to RH7.3, as I've seen the same occur on 6.x& 7.2. > How are you trying to bring the inferface up? if you're using > "ifup eth0" then that will only re-attempt to get a dhcp address. have > you issued an "ifconfig eth0 <ip.add.my.sys> netmask <net.for.cur.net> up" > ? I think I've got that syntax right. that *should* bring the interface > up on that ip until you bounce the system. (ifconfig on RH doesn't change > the boot config, only assigns for current use) > if that's what you're already doing, then I'd say this is goofy to > RH7.3, in which case, I've done a lot on typing for naught. > > -chris I have tried both the manual way, and using Redhat's netconfig. I grew up using Slackware, so I know how to do it by hand, but it does not want to make a connection. I can ping myself, just not anything else on the network. Jay