Subject: Re: Can I undo netconfig?
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 12:11:05 MST
You can remove the ifcfg-eth0 file. When you reboot, just run
ifconfig eth0 up and then run pump (or netconfig).
--- Sean
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Andy Hocker wrote:
>
> Hi, I've kind of shot myself in the foot here...
>
> I occasionally bring my laptop into work and hook up to
> the ethernet using DHCP. The way I would do this would
> be to boot up, type "pump" as root (I had to phone up
> a Linux-geek friend of mine to find out that step), and
> then I'd be on my way.
>
> Well, I just ran netconfig and set up eth0 for DHCP,
> not really knowing what that would do, but it's not
> like netconfig gives you much opportunity to screw things
> up. Everything seemed OK, I was online, etc. Then I
> rebooted and now I can't get going. Pump fails. Running netconfig
> again results in "A dhcp server did not respond." Argh.
> I now wish I hadn't run netconfig, so can I effectively
> undo it by removing the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> file that it created? Or does it touch all sorts of other things
> too?
>
> Help, or just general enlightenment on the subject, would
> be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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