[ltp] F10 update smashes ethernet

[Vincent C Jones]

Classic symptoms of an interface with DHCP configured. Periodically, the
daemon will notice the IP address is wrong and go out and lease a
"correct" one for the interface, wiping out whatever you manually
configured. ps aux | grep dhcp 

Someone else will have to tell you how to correctly configure the
networking in F10 to use a "static" IP rather than DHCP. 

Good luck and good hunting!

--
Vincent C Jones
Networking Unlimited, Inc


On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 19:30 -0700, bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:
> ---- Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:
> > > ---- Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
> > >>
> > >> bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:
> > >>> Thanks for your reply David but I now find that even my wired connection
> > >>> is gone and in a very strange way.
> > >>> If I ping 192.168.1.1, 
> > >>> it says that it is pinging 192.168.122.1, fails, and
> > >>> then reports an error pinging 192.168.1.1
> > >>> What's up with that?
> > >>> I just booted up with the F10 live CD and all went well with that.
> > >>>
> > >> I suggest that you may want to check your firewall settings. If you have 
> > >> any firewalling enabled, turn it off, and see if the problem goes away.
> > >>
> > >> What do you get when you run:
> > >>    ifconfig
> > > The second line shows the internet address to be 192.168.1.121
> > 
> > What happens if you manually configure the internet address with:
> > 
> > ifconfig eth0 192.168.XXX.XXX  netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> That's the major problem, something changes it back to 192.168.1.122
> > 
> > Also, check that you have no firewalling or hotplugging daemons
> none
>  At a 
> > guess, the gnome or KDE network manager may also be at fault.
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
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