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Fedora 10 no network connection
For some reason everytime I change the IP address of my Fedora 10 box my network connection quits working, this only happenes when I change the IP. Any ideas what might be causing this issue? How can I fix it?
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progjm
How are you changing the IP?
ASKER
Through System/Administration/Netw
when you change IP address then those established sessions to old ip will be referring to old ip which does not exists. You need to stop these sessions then change ip address.
Your router maintains a mapping between IP and MAC address. When you change the IP on the system, the router needs to update it's tables. There is a time-out on the router, so it should fix itself after a time. Try powering the router off and on and see if it picks up the connection.
ASKER
Its nothing with my router, I did check this before
What happens when you run ping after changing the IP address?
Are you disabling/enabling the network device after changing the IP address?
Are you disabling/enabling the network device after changing the IP address?
ASKER
Everytime I reboot eth0 is disabled, I enable it but then when I look at the network services it shows as disbaled and I cant enable it. Ping doent work, no network connection
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I have decided to go another direction with Red hat instead, thanks for the info you did give though. Will definately help with future issues