router using FC4

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 23:59 +0800, LC wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to make a router using a FC4. I have 2 NICs in the machine. 
> Install FC4 using minimium. Eth0 is set to DHCP, connected to an ethernet 
> modem and ETH1 has IP 192.168.1.1, netmask 255.255.255.0 connected to a 
> switch. Installation was a success and rebooted the box. Clients machines 
> are unable to ping 192.168.1.1. But when i unplug the modem and reboot, 
> clients are ablt to ping 192.168.1.1. I realised if the box booted up both 
> ETH0 and ETH1, clients are able to ping 192.168.1.1. But if i ifdown ETH0 
> and ifup ETH0, clients are able to get reply from 192.168.1.1.
> 
> Can someone tell me what should I do?

Perhaps this is the initscripts bug that causes eth0/eth1 to get
assigned to the two cards randomly?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187550

Try the initscripts package from updates-testing

Paul.