Are you using DHCP? In theory, a reboot shouldn't be necessary to bring up the network. Another alternative to using the GUI Service Configurator would be to use the following at a prompt. # service network restart The above command will start the network even if it is currently down and it should be a lot faster than a reboot. Mark Courtney > > I have had problems on and off in booting up my RH7.2 system where the > network just does not exist. By that I mean, I can ping the localhost, I > can ping the internal IP of the card, but I can not ping any neighboring > machine on the internal network. So ... rather than trouble shooting it > ... I just reboot the system and MOST of the time that works ... other > times it has taken several reboots until it finally restarts. This time > ... it did not and I had to manually go into the service configuration gui > ... and restart the Network there. > > So .. what I did is as follows: I went to the service configuration gui and > started the NetWork process there. It is checked to start at boot ... but > for some reason it did not. Once I restarted it, there was no problem. > > Anyone else had this problem and have a fix for it? I checked the boot log > and eth0 comes up fine ... no real warnings or errors indicated there ... > but just no network. > > Comments or thoughts appreciated. > > Randy > > "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of > comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - > Martin Luther King, Jr. > > ph: 218-385-3750 > fax:218-385-3751 > email: rclark at lakesplus.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list