[Server-devel] Nonstatic static address

[rayb at apc.edu.ph]

Hi, Jerry,

----- Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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?
It shouldn't be, come to think of it.

> Does this
> XS-server have one or two NICS?
two

> Could you post your ifcfg-* from 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?
Attached to this email (file ifcfg-scripts.tar).

> 
> > 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
[rayb at schoolserver ~]$ ps -A | grep Network
 2755 ?        00:00:00 NetworkManager

> 
> Jerry
> 
Thanks,

Ray
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ifcfg-scripts.tar
Type: application/x-tar
Size: 30720 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/attachments/20100112/cba024ea/attachment-0001.tar