Hi All,

I have just installed RedHat 7.2 but I am having severe problems with getting IP address via DHCP.  This is the story.

During installation, I enabled DHCP for the two Ethernet interfaces my server has.  After installation, my server was given a name localhost.localdomain with only the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1, even though the DHCP server of my DSL provider has been contacted and an IP address obtained. 

When I typed ifconfig at the command line I saw the IP address and gateways obtained from the DHCP server.  The weired thing is, this IP address does not appear in the IP address configuration window and the /etc/hosts file.

When I changed the server name from localhost to the real name and rebooted, I kept getting an error saying 

"Could not obtain IP address for <my real computername>"   

I used to have Redhat 7.0 and never had this problem.  I did not do an upgrade, I decided to do a clean installation of RedHat 7.2.

Has anyone come across this sort of problem?  Is there something obvious that I am doing wrong?

Regards

Michael 


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