[wplug] 2 quick questions

[Vanco, Donald]

Teodorski, Chris <mailto:cteodorski at ppg.com> wrote:
> I think these are crazy simple questions.
> 
> Number one, I have a network interface and I do a ifconfig
> eth0 down followed by a ifconfig eth0 up.  Now I am unable to
> resolve any DNS names.  I checked resolved.conf and it
> contains the proper name servers.  What do I need to do to
> "reinitialize name resolution", I looked at the man pages for
> ifconfig and I don't see anything there.
> 
> Secondly, a coworker has a VMware session with RH9.0 on it
> (not officially supported by VMWare yet).  It installed fine
> and when it is given a static address it works like a
> champion.  However, it doesn't seem to be able to pull a DHCP
> address.  This might be a VMWare issue and not a Linux issue,
> but I'm not quite sure how to ascertain this.  Any initial
> troubleshooting steps would be appreciated.
	You might want to look over the RH9 mailing list @ red hat - I know
there was an active developer from VMWare involved in the beta, and there
were some tweaks that got things working (that made it into emails during
the beta) - just not sure if that included networking stuff...  I will look
through my archives and if I find it, forward same...
Don