Configurations

Lauren · Post by **Lauren** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:52 pm

After i downloaded a version of linux, linux 9 shrike, i need to now have it be able to configure it so that it can accept network IPs, gateways, etc. How do i do this?

I am supposed to make it very similiar to what we have now with the win clients.

Help!! Any suggestions?

pthread · Post by **pthread** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:58 pm

I am assuming rh9 used the same place to store its network configs, I don't remember. Type the following in, 'less /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0'. Make sure it prints something similar to the following:

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DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:04:5A:7B:B5:08
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet

The only thing that should be different is your HWADDR section. That makes it boot via dhcp. This is assuming of course you have a dhcp server on your network, which you should.

Lauren · Post by **Lauren** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:00 pm

Ok, well this is what i got:

DEVICE = eth0
BOOTPROTO = dhcp
ONBOOT= yes

thats all i got........

pthread · Post by **pthread** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:06 pm

I believe that should be enough... someone correct me if I am wrong...

So what you should do now is see if your networking is up.

Type 'ifconfig eth0' to see what comes up, does it have an ip address? Type 'ping -c2 google.com' and let us know if pings are going through.

Post by **dann** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:40 pm

If it is not up, you may want to

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d (is that it) or cd /etc/init.d (I forget where it is in redhat)

then

./network start

or what ever the network startup script is.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:45 am

this works for my RH 7.3 box

(as root)

service network start/restart/stop

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:20 am

ok, when i do a ifconfig eth0 i believe it is working, im seeing a HWaddr, inetaddr, Bcast, and a mask address...however, i tried to ping google.com and im getting a "Usage: ping" in return with what appears to be a liste of options for the ping button.....so what do i try now??

Lauren · Post by **Lauren** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:33 am

Ok so i just went thru and changed/played w/a few things and once i typed in the ping -c2 google.com...i got, PING google.com (216.239..37.99) and i typed that into the browser and google came up, does this mean that the network is up?

pthread · Post by **pthread** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:00 am

You are golden... but you should be able to just type google.com in your browser, that works too right?

Lauren · Post by **Lauren** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:12 am

Yes, it works that way as well....thank you soo much everyone!!

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