Bring up Ethernet

[John Nall]

Well (sigh), after wrestling with this problem for several days, I've decided to go back to basics and ask the questions that perhaps I should have started with.

PROBLEM: I cannot get ethernet working for two RH8.0 machines to communicate with each other.

STATUS: Two machines, side by side, both running RH8.0. Both machines also can run Windows and the network works OK when using that. All extranous things have been removed -- two machines are now connected by a single cable (with the proper reverses -- yellow cable -- it works).

Both machines are configured as "workstations" and both have additional packages installed to be sure all networking software is there (probably went overboard in installing packages I do not need).

Following the instructions under the Redhat "Customization" documentation I do SYSTEM SETTINGS --> NETWORK DEVICE CONTROL. Both machines show eth0.

However, when I try to "activate" the eth0 device it fails.

So, where do I begin? I am a great believer in RTFM but do not know where to start over and above where I already started.

Thanks, JOHN



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