Hi Noam, Enable RTNETLINK in your kernel config (Networking options->Routing messages).
RedHat 7.2 needs it as it uses iproute2 and not the normal route. Sagi On Saturday 17 November 2001 22:51, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Hi! > I was trying to upgrade to a newer kernel in redhat 7.2 (at the beginning > to 2.4.13 and l8er to 2.4.14). The compiling went smoothly and everything > works just fine, except of one thing: The network scripts don't bring up > the interfaces correctly. > what happens is that i get this error message: > > Cannot send dump request: Connection refused > > and then the network interfaces come up but without any IP and no entry in > the routing table. > > I have attached here a file with a demonstration of what happens while i > try to start the network and what are the results. (better look at it at > this phase) > > Now, after the network "came up" i can bring up an IP for the interfaces > manually (and it works), and then i have two options: 1- add a default > gateway by my self. > 2- do "/etc/init.d/network start" and let it add my default gateway to the > routing table. but no matter what i will do - i can't add the route entry > of the loopback network (127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U > 0 0 0 lo) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
