[Server-devel] Nonstatic static address

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 09:58 +0800, rayb at apc.edu.ph wrote:
> Hi, Martin,
> 
> ----- Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> (snip)
> > 
> > > We also set a static IP for the server--though I noticed that on a cold boot the server seems to get its address via DHCP and needs a network restart to get the static address back.
> > 
> > Very odd -- the scripts / configuration that execute are the same
> > regardless of whether it is from cold boot or network restart.
> It gets odder--I tried this morning and observed:
> * cold boot - address 10.106.1.180 (DHCP generated)
> * after network restart - address 10.106.1.180 (same as above)
> * after another network restart - address 10.106.1.51 (supposed to be the static address, see attached ifcfg-eth0-local file)
> 

NETWORK=10.106.1.0 is that network shared with the XO's? Does this
XS-server have one or two NICS? Could you post your ifcfg-* from 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?

> I should mention that I did a groupinstall of "X Window System" and then installed mc, firefox and fluxbox, might that have pulled in some package that is affecting networking?
> 
That could be bad.... can you check if NetworkManager is running? 
ps -A | grep Network

Jerry