[luau] Road Runner

Ronnie T Livingston rlivings at hawaii.edu
Sun Mar 24 16:31:22 PST 2002


On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Deven Phillips wrote:

> Mark,
>
> 	You shouldn't feel stupid. We were all there at some time or another.
>
> Deven Phillips, CISSP
>

Yes I am learning alot myself, keep the questions coming =).

btw, Does anyone know how to snip parts of a previous message using pine?
I spent about 5 minutes holding the backspace button to cut text out before
I got tired.

-Ronnie

 > On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:41 am, you wrote:
> > Again, I can't thank all of you enough for your time and effort.  Out of
> > all of this information, what should I do now?  Sorry, but you guys have
> > drilled down quite a bit here and I don't understand most of it and I'm
> > more afaid now of making a mistake and really screwing things up.  I know,
> > stupid newbie!
> >
> >
> > From: Ray Strode <halfline at hawaii.rr.com>
> >
> > >Reply-To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> > >To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> > >Subject: Re: [luau] Road Runner
> > >Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 02:11:54 -1000
> > >
> > >>1.  The kernel is compiled with networking support and recognizes the
> > >>Intel PRO/1000 Ethernet card.  Warren, I doubt a new kernel is needed.
> > >>You mentioned there was a problem with the EEPro100.  This is an
> > >>EtherExpress card.  I do not believe the problem you remember applies
> > >>here, unless an Intel PRO/1000 is the same as an EtherExpress Pro100,
> > >>which I doubt.
> > >
> > >I'm not certain, by I think it's atleast plausible that they use the same
> > >driver.  Remember it's a gigabit card, but it's only being pushed to
> > >10Mb/s.
> > >Chances are at least for that much functionality the same driver would
> > >work (and is probably being autoloaded).
> > >
> > >>But I am not against upgrading to the latest kernel.  I
> > >>just do not believe it is necessary in this case.  Mark, I do recommend
> > >>you install a kernel version that Oracle has tested with.
> > >
> > >I agree with you.
> > >
> > >>2.  DHCP is installed.  It must be, since running it resulted in an error
> > >>message about it being running already.  More about this later.
> > >
> > >Yes that and the fact that his routing table shows him having a gateway
> > > and ifconfig shows him having an IP address :-).  And so when he goes ls
> > > /sbin/dhcpcd
> > >it's there :-)
> > >
> > >>As I see it, there are potentially two problems.  First, DHCP does not
> > >>seem to be running after bootup.
> > >
> > >That's not a problem.  That's a choice.. He only wants it to give him
> > >internet
> > >on demand (when he plugs the cable modem into the already running box).
> > >
> > >>Second, as Patrick suggested, there might be a hardware problem.
> > >
> > >No.. It gets an IP address and Gateway.
> > >
> > >>Assuming the problem is _not_ with hardware, we still need to figure out
> > >>why DHCP is not running, or was killed.
> > >
> > >It is running.
> > >
> > >>Unfortunately, I am not a RedHat user, so I have no idea how RedHat
> > >>
> > >>implemented their network configuration.  So if Warren and Ray could help
> > >>
> > >>me out, I have a few questions.
> > >
> > >ts some environment variables that /etc/init.d/network
> > >script uses to know what to do.
> > >
> > >>Ray, I think it is better to determine
> > >>why RedHat is not running DHCP automatically, rather than running
> > >>/sbin/dhcpcd.
> > >
> > >He doesn't wan't it to run automatically.  He wants it to run on demand.
> > >You are right though.  It's better to use
> > >/etc/init.d/network
> > >then /sbin/dhcpcd and friends
> > >
> > >>Since we are talking about RR, there is no reason to
> > >>manually startup the network.
> > >
> > >Yes there is.  He normally keeps his cable modem plugged into his other
> > >computer.
> > >
> > >>1.  Mark, you need to login as root from your KDE environment to run all
> > >>of the commands that everyone is asking you to run.  The reason you got
> > >>an error when you typed 'ifconfig' was because you were not root.  Ray,
> > >>Warren, correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't RedHat include /sbin in the
> > >>pset to the previous user.
> > >
> > >>Aams into an editor.
> > >>The terminal app usually has a scroll bar, so if the output scrolls off
> > >>the window, just move the scroll bar up and copy the text.
> > >
> > >That's true (except Ctrl-Alt-F7 normally goes back to X, not to a console)
> > >
> > >>2.  The dmesg output suggests that the kernel already recognized the
> > >>Ethernet card.  This means the device driver was compiled into the
> > >> kernel. So there is no need to worry about loadable modules.  If no one
> > >> knows what this is, it doesn't matter.  It is not important.
> > >
> > >hrmmmm........interesting.....I never even thought of that.  Actually,
> > >dmesg
> > >output isn't strictly boot messages is it?  I mean it
> > >when the module was loaded after dhcpcd was ran).
> > >
> > >>3.  Concerning the contents of the /etc/resolv.conf file.  I think having
> > >>only one IP address listed is a mistake.  I had problems where the first
> > >>DNS server on the list was down.  If th




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