DHCP failing in FC1

[Steve Waggitt]

Manuel Carro wrote:

>    I have installed FC1 + updates, and it seems that the scripts to
>start up the network are somewhat broken (both in 7.42.1 and
>7.42.2-1).  After defining a DHCP interface, starting it up fails:
>
>$ ifup DHCP
>Determining IP information for eth0:3.../sbin/dhclient-script: configuration eth0:3 for eth0:3 not found.
>
>The same happens when trying to use the graphical tool.  The
>configuration file ifcfg-DHCP is in place, and it looks right.  I
>tried to trace the problem and it is apparently some mismatch between
>/sbin/ifup and /sbin/dhclient-script regarding the name of the
>configuration file for the interface.  Any hint?
>
>  
>
Hi,

I had a similar problem connecting FC1 to my set-top-box, the solution 
was to add the line

ifconfig eth0 up

to the /etc/init.d/network script at the beginning.  It works OK now.  
Hope this helps.

Steve.

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