reboot problems

[Frank Mandato]

Cliff,

  With cox you get dhcp, unless you have a business account where you
get dedicated ip addresses. Check your current ip address and make sure
it has not changed. Sometimes when I reboot, I get a new ip address
assigned and have to change the gateway address for the lan nic to match
the new ip address.

  FrankM

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:18, Cliff Rogers wrote:
> I have a box with ClarkConnect (based on Redhat 7.2 I think) installed
> on it. It has two identical NIC's installed. I use it as a
> gateway/router for my LAN. Today I suffered a power outage and when my
> box rebooted it would not allow me access to the Internet. when I
> checked the config file for the NIC settings it shows the same IRQ and
> I/O addresses for each one. I have a couple questions:
>  
> 1. For a box with *nix installed and is rebooted, and it doesn't
> matter whether it was a power loss or a normal shutdown, is it normal
> for it to lose the configuration settings for a NIC? Is there someway
> I can fix this so that the settings are permanent?
>  
> 2. At the next Installfest what would I need to bring with me so that
> I can have someone help me verify all my settings? I would like to use
> this as a router and web server so that I can park some web pages on
> it.
>  
> Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions you may have.
> Thanks, Cliff
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Frank Mandato <linuxfrank@cox.net>