On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: > On my CentOS 6 partition of my laptop: > > First note that for this test, NetworkManager is not > running because I did: > chkconfig --del NetworkManager > and then rebooted. > > Here is my ifcfg-eth0: > > DEVICE="eth0" > NM_CONTROLLED="no" > ONBOOT=no > HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > TYPE=Ethernet > BOOTPROTO=none > IPADDR=192.168.2.5 > PREFIX=24 > GATEWAY=192.168.2.1 > DNS1=192.168.2.1 > DNS2=192.168.2.1 > DEFROUTE=yes > IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes > IPV6INIT=no > NAME="System eth0" > UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx > > I reboot to level3, do startx (to KDE 4) then do: > # ifconfig eth0 up > # ping 192.168.9.1 > connect: Network is unreachable > > If I edit ifcfg-eth0 to set > ONBOOT=yes > and reboot, I get a proper connection. > > So why is "ifconfig eth0 up" not connecting? "ifconfig" is a low level tool that does not parse the config files like ifcfg-eth0. You'll either have to use: ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.5 route add default gw 192.168.2.1 or ifup eth0 The latter one is a script that parses all the config files. Best regards, Bernd. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos