Very Computer

greetings:

        I have a rather weird problem concerning ethernet in Redhat 5.0.
I am connected to school ethernet and have all the IPs setup properly.
However, I couldn't access anywhere outside of the domain *UNLESS* I "su"
as root, run "netcfg" and "de-activate/re-activate" my eth0.

but anywhere within the domain I can access them by both IP/name.

I don't have this kind of behaviour in W95/NT4.

any help is very much appreciated,

Elvis

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: > However, I couldn't access anywhere outside of the domain *UNLESS* I "su"
: > as root, run "netcfg" and "de-activate/re-activate" my eth0.
: what does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 look like?

DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=130.15.YYY.255
NETWORK=130.15.YYY.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=130.15.YYY.XXX

where 130.15 is my school domain, YYY is the subnet of my building, and
XXX is my machine.  The IP are statically assigned.

actually, I just realized that, the network actually works for about 2 minutes
upon linux's bootup, then it only works within the domain.  That is, I can
access everywhere in the internet by both IP/name for the first 2 minutes
after the machine boots in linux.  After that period, I'll have "su" as
root and deactivate/reactivate eth0 in "netcfg".  VERY weird.

as I mentioned, my "netcfg" configuration is idential to my friend's computer
which is on Redhat 4.2.  The only is the "XXX" value above.

thanx,  

/sbin/ifdown eth0
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gated stop
rpm -e gated
/sbin/ifup eth0

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Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net  | PGP key available
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