eth0 setup

[Tom Achtenberg]

Everytime I boot my pc I get a failure on the eth0 setting up ip information.  It should be getting the ip information from a DHCP server just like my windows machines.  In the network configuration it is set for booting active and dhcp yet it always fails and comes up insctive.  I can manually activate it but it never grabs an ip address.  How should this be configured?  I am running RH 7.0 (I cannot get the 7.1 disk to boot to upgrade) connected to an always on internet vis ethernet card.  Note there are no dsl modems, no routers and no gateways in my setup.  My isp provides the dhcp server.