Re: Help: Mandriva drops DHCP IP address nor can't ping to local host

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 07/17/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:38:52 -0500

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:58:13 +0300, Michael Badt wrote:
> Hi,
> My dual boot (Mandriva LE 2005 LE - fully updated/Win2000) at work worked
> fine (both OS) till this weekend.
> [root@Atlantis miki]# ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:BA:EF:CC
> inet addr:10.4.4.13 Bcast:10.4.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::202:a5ff:feba:efcc/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:289 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:28768 (28.0 Kb) TX bytes:7662 (7.4 Kb)
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:4171 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:4171 (4.0 Kb)
>
> sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
> inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
> UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Hmmm, inet6. If me I would turn of ipv6.

click up a terminal and do the following:
su -l root
service network stop # shuts down the network
export DISPLAY=:0 # allows use of gui tools
kwrite /etc/sysconfig/network # start a gui editor to add one line
and add the following line followed by a carriage return.
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
save and exit.

service network start # starts up the network
exit # exits root login
exit # exits user terminal

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