eth0 IP address keeps resetting - FC6

[dodginess]

Hi All,

This is my first post to the forum so please bear with me...

A brief overview of my setup: I've just installed Fedora Core 6 on a fairly standard PC and have connected it to another machine via an ethernet cross-over cable. I'm running the FC6 system as a DHCP server which the other machine connects to for its IP address and also for accessing part of the harddrive as a network file system.

My problem is that the FC6 machine keeps resetting its own IP address to a self-assigned one even if I force it to change using ifconfig. It does this so regularly that I have to keep running the ifconfig command every couple of minutes to make sure that the other machine can still see the file system. Restarting nfs services doesn't appear to make any difference and I can only assume that some other process is overriding my default settings.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this might be happening?

Thanks in advance,

Neil

[Zero-Override]

are you running the network manager? if so kill it.
also, why are you using Fedora 6? it's already EOL (End Of Life) for quite a while, even Fedora 7 will be soon ;)

[dodginess]

Hi,

Thank you for the quick reply. Checking in the Service Configuration, your comments about the NetworkManager application were correct so thanks again (as you may have guessed, I'm fairly new to Fedora so apologies if this should have been obvious).

The reason I'm using Fedora Core 6 is because the PC is being used to develop an application on an embedded Linux device and I have to use what the manufacturers tell me to use or I don't get any support :) Actually, that's not quite true, but they prefer everyone to be using the same system because then they know exactly what's been installed. The development PC won't ever be connected to a network or the Internet so - for once - I don't have to worry about any security issues either. Besides, I like being out of sync with everyone else - I only moved over from MS DOS about a couple of years ago :p And don't even mention the fact that my work Mac is now running on software over 10 years old...

Thanks,

Neil

[Zero-Override]

sweet!! yeah i'm with you on being out of sync ;)

good luck with your project and if you need any help (even if you think it could be simple) don't hesitate to ask!! ;)