On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:23:52PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Have you rebooted/power cycled the box? Looking at the network scripts, > that message comes from an arping poke and that's pretty definitive. Many times ... > Try changing the IP address in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > to something fairly high (say 192.168.1.200) and see if it'll come up > via "service network restart". If it does, then try pinging 192.168.1.6 > and see if something really does have that address. It may be that the > address was handed out by a DHCP server on your network. Changing the IP address works - goodness knows why because there is no other device with the old address on the network and the whole network is static IP, no DHCP at all. I've decided to write the old IP address off and just use another new one. At least it gets us up and running cleanly. Jonathan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list