RH 8.0 Network not working

[Aaron]

MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at opus1.com>
To: "'Duane Attaway'" <dattaway at attaway.net>; "jo mojo"
<johan_yo at hotmail.com>
Cc: "Kansas City Linux Users Group" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:53 AM
Subject: RE: RH 8.0 Network not working

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway at attaway.net]
>
> > This is good.  Now all you need is to know the address for
> > the gateway.
> > The gateway address is where all your packets going out to
> > the real world
> > get funneled through:
>
> > /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.2.1 eth0
> >
> > if that is the address of your cable modem, router, or
> > whatever is the
> > gateway device to your internet.
>
> The thing is with a post-1990 distribution, you shouldn't have to manually
> add a route.  This should be done by the init scripts, pulling the info
from
> the DHCP server.
>
> Johannes, have you done any configuration on the machine post-install?  Do
> you remember what you picked for the network when installing?
>
> I prefer to do all system configuration directly, using the text files
that
> control a standard SysV startup rather than GUI utilities, but I think in
> your RH Control Panel you'll find a network configuration utility.  What
you
> need to do is set it to pull all of your network info from the router via
> DHCP.
>
>