AMMRL Linux gurus;
I am running Red Hat 9 (2.4.20-6). I had a working, but flaky internet
connection. I used the Red Hat network tool to look at my parameters to
see if something was mis-set. I noticed that one of the name servers
had an incorrect ip address, so I fixed that and restarted the network.
It would not start up because "Error: other host already uses this ip
address". I cleaned out all references to eth0, and to the ip address,
and verified that only lo was running (with netstat, ifconfig, and
network). Then I rebooted. Still only lo.
I added back in the config information for eth0 and again, I get the
"other host" error. If I tell the system to go get an ip address,
networking works fine. If I give it a static ip address, (I tried
several) I get the error.
I have been able to find this question on the web- but not the solution.
(A dynamic ip address is not ideal- I have all my systems with very
tight access lists, and I would have to edit them every time the address
changed.)
thanks,
kas
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Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 17:41:34 MST