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Re: network problem while upgrading kernel



Hi Sagi,
just want to say 10x. it worked.

Noam

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:46:14 +0200
Sagi Bashari <sagi@boom.org.il> wrote:

> Hi Noam,
> 
> Enable RTNETLINK in your kernel config (Networking options->Routing messages).
> 
> RedHat 7.2 needs it as it uses iproute2 and not the normal route.
> 
> Sagi
> 
> On Saturday 17 November 2001 22:51, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I was trying to upgrade to a newer kernel in redhat 7.2 (at the beginning
> > to 2.4.13 and l8er to 2.4.14). The compiling went smoothly and everything
> > works just fine, except of one thing: The network scripts don't bring up
> > the interfaces correctly.
> > what happens is that i get this error message:
> >
> > Cannot send dump request: Connection refused
> >
> > and then the network interfaces come up but without any IP and no entry in
> > the routing table.
> >
> > I have attached here a file with a demonstration of what happens while i
> > try to start the network and what are the results. (better look at it at
> > this phase)
> >
> > Now, after the network "came up" i can bring up an IP for the interfaces
> > manually (and it works), and then i have two options: 1- add a default
> > gateway by my self.
> > 2- do "/etc/init.d/network start" and let it add my default gateway to the
> > routing table. but no matter what i will do - i can't add the route entry
> > of the loopback network (127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U 
> >    0      0        0 lo)
> 
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