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I decided to recycle an old server, Dell Poweredge 860 Service Tag: B21N5F1, that had vyatta (a what use to be open-source firewall os) firewall installed on it. I went ahead and did a clean install of CentOS 6.6 (64 bit) via a bootable usb. I have installed CentOS 6.6 atleast eight times before this, on other machines, and the install has always been smooth as butter. Not this time though. I have followed the following documentation to a tee.

https://github.com/rharmonson/richtech/wiki/CentOS-6.5-Minimal-x86_64-Base-Installation-Guide

I have configured the server with a static IP, specified the nameservers, specified the gateway, and tried three different ethernet cables.

yet...

I cannot ping my gateway or 8.8.8.8

I came across Bug 486601, but I'm skeptical because this looks like a bug that has to do with DHCP. I'll have to try adding LINKDELAY=60 to the ifcfg-eth0 file and see what happens.

But PLEASE!

Any suggestions is greatly appreciated!

nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:14:16:3B:8E:AB
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=I dont feel like typing this
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.32.35
NETMASK=255.255.255.0


nano /etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=server2.mydomain.com
GATEWAY=192.168.32.2


route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway Genmask       Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.32.0  0.0.0.0   255.255.255.0 U     0      0      0 eth0
169.254.0.0   0.0.0.0   255.255.0.0    U     1002   0      0 eth0
 0.0.0.0      192.168.32.2   0.0.0.0 UG     0      0      0 eth0


 nano /etc/resolv.conf
 nameserver 8.8.8.8
 nameserver 8.8.4.4

 ifconfig
 eth0    Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:16:3B:8E:AB
            inet addr: 192.168.32.35 Bcast: 192.168.32.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)
            Interrupt:16 Memory:fe9e0000-fea00000

lo         Link encap:Local Loopback
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            inet6 addr:  ::1/128 Scope:Host
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)

mii-tool eth0
eth0: no link
PhiL
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Success!

I was able to access the NIC configuration settings during my the PE860's boot process via 

 Ctrl and S.

Once there, I changed the NIC configuration from 

 Autonegotiate to 100Mb Full.

Then I let the server finish booting.

Put in the root password.

Invoked the interface via the command 

 ifup eth0.

Finally I issued the command

yum update

Thank you for your thought provoking suggestions.

Michael Hampton you sure put the Ham in Hampton. You joker you. ;)

PhiL
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