weird network issue

[Dima (Dan) Yasny]

google seems to find quite a lot of hits for the error, most of them sum up
to "misconfigured ETH"
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/server-ifup-rtnetlink-answers-network-is-unreachable-problem-340915/
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/server-ifup-rtnetlink-answers-network-is-unreachable-problem-340915/>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155299

2011/2/14 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I'm getting some really weird error, even though the network on the machine
> works well.
> When I'm doing: "service network restart" or "ifup eth0", I'm getting a
> message: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable.
>
> It is reachable. route's output is perfectly ok, the machine can access the
> net and I can access it from outside. DNS works, ping works etc..
>
> Looking at /var/log/messages, all I see is:
>
> Feb 14 13:23:00 testing23 kernel: eth0: intr type 2, mode 0, 1 vectors
> allocated
> Feb 14 13:23:00 testing23  kernel: eth0: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps
>
> Here is my ifcfg-eth0 (it's a virtual machine, so the check_link stuff is
> what vmware added)
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> USERCTL=no
> BOOTPROTO=none
> NETMASK=255.255.255.224
> IPADDR=82.XXX.XXX.203
> PEERDNS=no
>
> check_link_down() {
> return 1;
> }
> HWADDR=00:50:56:a3:00:18
> GATEWAY=82.XXX.XXX.193
> TYPE=Ethernet
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
>
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