Address already in use error

In furtherence of my last reply to this message...

Just noted your other response about having no other Linux boxen on the
same subnet. Perhaps you could get your hands on something like Knoppix,
or boot your installation media on different machine and see if it still
happens.

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Mark Voss <voss001@yahoo.com.not4spam> wrote:
> It's a Cisco switch. (it's remote so I can't say which model at the
> moment but can find out) We tried varying the arp refresh rate on
> it, but no help. THere are no other Linux boxes on the switch, but
> numerous other Windows boxes with no problems.

I'd try commenting out

if ! arping -q -c 2 -w 3 -D -I ${REALDEVICE} ${IPADDR} ; then
echo $"Error, some other host already uses address ${IPADDR}."
exit 1
fi

in ifup. If it works then the cause of the problem is moot; you said
all IP addresses where static.

This is probably considered RH heresy, but sometimes it's whatever works.

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