Re: [tlug] Help! - I broke dhcp

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

[Tomita Alberto (Re: [tlug] Help! - I broke dhcp) writes:]
>> At Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:28:25 +1100 (EST),
>> Jim Breen wrote:
>> [...]
>> > No-one around here has much RH7.2 experience. Any suggestions? One
>> > suggestion I got was to remove dhcp and reinstall it. All I want is the
>> > defaults back.
>> 
>> in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 do you have 
>> something like:
>> 
>>    DEVICE=eth0
>>    ONBOOT=yes
>>    BOOTPROTO=dhcp

Yes, and there were a couple of other lines, including "PEERDNS=no",
which I think is/was the culprit.

Before editing this my hand, I followed Anthony Stace's recommendation
and ran /usr/sbin/netconfig, selecting dhcp. That reset ifcfg-eth0 back
to just the three lines above.

On rebooting, dhcp (the protocol, pump is the program) was working again.

Many thanks to everyone who responded.

A related question - is there any way I can impose a local hostname,
which doesn't get in the way of things? Older distros had a
"/etc/HOSTNAME" file, but RH7.2 doesn't seem to have one.

Jim

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