HELP! network reconfig didn't work

Hi all,
I'm running RedHat 9 on an intel box.
I'm hoping someone can gimmie some info on this weirdness. I'm wanting
to flip the id of two servers. I edited the /etc/hosts,
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files
to reflect the changes. When I rebooted, one server was happy with the new
id, the other server refused to update it's ip address to reflect the
change. I double checked that the files on the server in denial that I'd
edited were indeed reflecting the new configuration I wanted. As a result, I
had to revert back to the original config.
Is there some place other than hosts, network and ifcfg-eth0 where the
network ip address would be being set?
As a side note, I did add addition virtual interfaces (ifcfg-eth0:4)
BROADCAST=172.17.129.255
IPADDR=172.17.129.199
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=172.17.129.0
GATEWAY=172.17.129.1
ONBOOT=yes

to both servers and the complacent one did what I asked and the
contentious one refused that change as well.

Please please please, any thoughts at all are welcome

-Mark

Mark Parker wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'm running RedHat 9 on an intel box.
> I'm hoping someone can gimmie some info on this weirdness. I'm wanting
> to flip the id of two servers. I edited the /etc/hosts,
> /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files
> to reflect the changes. When I rebooted, one server was happy with the new
> id, the other server refused to update it's ip address to reflect the
> change. I double checked that the files on the server in denial that I'd
> edited were indeed reflecting the new configuration I wanted. As a result, I
> had to revert back to the original config.
> Is there some place other than hosts, network and ifcfg-eth0 where the
> network ip address would be being set?
> As a side note, I did add addition virtual interfaces (ifcfg-eth0:4)
> BROADCAST=172.17.129.255
> IPADDR=172.17.129.199
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=172.17.129.0
> GATEWAY=172.17.129.1
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> to both servers and the complacent one did what I asked and the
> contentious one refused that change as well.
>
> Please please please, any thoughts at all are welcome
>
> -Mark

What version of linux are you running on the 'unhappy' server? Can we
assume it is red hat 9 as well?

Joe
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