Subject: Can I undo netconfig?
From: Andy Hocker (hocker@fnal.gov)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 20:08:31 MST
Hi, I've kind of shot myself in the foot here...
I occasionally bring my laptop into work and hook up to
the ethernet using DHCP. The way I would do this would
be to boot up, type "pump" as root (I had to phone up
a Linux-geek friend of mine to find out that step), and
then I'd be on my way.
Well, I just ran netconfig and set up eth0 for DHCP,
not really knowing what that would do, but it's not
like netconfig gives you much opportunity to screw things
up. Everything seemed OK, I was online, etc. Then I
rebooted and now I can't get going. Pump fails. Running netconfig
again results in "A dhcp server did not respond." Argh.
I now wish I hadn't run netconfig, so can I effectively
undo it by removing the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
file that it created? Or does it touch all sorts of other things
too?
Help, or just general enlightenment on the subject, would
be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Andy
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