[PLUG] Fedora, network config tool fails

[Kenneth G. Stephens]

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 18:22, Bill Spears wrote:
> I just installed Fedora1 on a laptop and everything seemed to work
> beautifully until I tried to connect to another computer on the LAN. It
> failed to ping, in fact it didn't think it was connected to a network. 
> ifconfig revealed that eth0's broadcast and netmask addresses were
> wrong, netstat -r revealed that it had no default route.
> 
> When I started main menu::system services::network, it threw up a little
> info box that said, "Static routes file eth0 is invalid".
> 
> I can make it work with ifconfig and route so there's no hardware
> problem.  Does anyone understand this) (I changed some incorrect stuff
> in /etc/sysconfig/network/.., but it still didn't work.)
> -- 
> Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>
The configuration files for eth0 are in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

If you use a RedHat utility to configure the eth0, you may find some
cruft in /etc/sysconfig/networking.  Not yet familiar with Fedora, just
RedHat stuff.

Ken
CAD2CAM.COM