eth0 Not Coming Up

From: Jason Williard (jason_at_pcsafe.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:58:49 -0800

Today I restarted my server to find that it was not responding after 5
minutes. After some investigating, I found that networking was not starting
up. Somehow, the /etc/sysconfig/network file had disapeared. This has been
corrected and now the network service starts successfully along with the lo
interface. However, I cannot seem to get eth0 to come up. By all accounts,
it appears to be coming up.

When I type 'service network restart' it shows:
   Bringing up interface etho: [ OK ]

Here is my /etc/sysconfig/network file: 

---
HOSTNAME=hostname.domain.com
NETWORKING=yes
---
Here is my ifcfg-eth0 file:
---
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
BROADCAST=***.***.170.255
NETWORK=***.***170.0
NETMASK=255.255.254.0
IPADDR=***.***.170.56
USERCTL=no
---
These files have not changed for several weeks.  Up until now, they have 
worked, even after a restart.  Can anyone think if any reason why the eth0 
interface would not come up?
Thank You,
Jason Williard

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