8.04 server latest updates

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:

> [snip]
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 16:33 -0400, Verde Denim wrote:
> > 192.168.1.101
> > 255.255.255.0
> > 192.168.1.1
> [snip]
>
> Just taking a wag at this one, but, most off the shelf commercial
> routers start their dhcp services issuing IP's at 100 (192.168.1.100).
> If your router issues dhcp addy's could you have a conflict with the
> *.101 addy?  Perhaps you could set the card to DHCP just to see if it
> comes up and communicates on the network, assuming this server is not
> the DHCP server.
>
> Also, have you pinged yourself?  Just to make sure the nic *is* working.
> I know this is all basic but just troubleshooting.  If you have already
> tried these or other things in addition to your OP let us know.
>
> Fred
>

Fred
I appreciate your help.

The system was working fine up until the updates which required a reboot.
At this point, I can ping myself at 192.168.1.101

I have 5 systems on an 8-port router, all with IPs from 101 through 108. All
the other systems are working fine.
The router currently has all dhcp settings turned off. If I turn it on for
this machine, I'll need to manually reset the other 7 as well, since I'd
need to reconfigure the router to use DHCP first.
I'm googling about and finding lots of hits on ADDRCONF (NETDEV_UP): eth0:
link is not ready, so maybe there's something here... A few of them seem to
indicate a bug ith udev among other things. But at this point I know that
the box worked, the cable worked, the interface worked - all before today's
updates...

I did check to make sure, and there is only one eth interface.

Update...

This is strange... I rebooted the box, went into bios and disabled the
onboard LAN. booted up and found no eth0 (as expected)
I rebooted again - this time re enabling the onboard LAN. booted up, and
eth0 is back!

A Windoze kludge to be sure - but it did get the interface back online. Not
sure why... it always gives me a creepy feeling when a windoze fix solves a
linux problem.

Thanks for the help. I guess the maintainers still have a bit of noodling to
do on this one.

Regards

Jack

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