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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>I'm a student with an oracle development emphasis in Ft
Collins. I want to base my graduation project on a portal platform and
have not had luck with the stability of the school's network. Student
DBA's, underpowerd system, too many users - all students. It crashed
often.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>I had the thought to set up my own development
platform and found that A) oracle runs better on Linux than NT, B) Linux is way
more economical for me than NT, C) Linux has a better stability reputation than
NT.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>I'll go with B, Alex, and keep my hundreds of dollars
away from Uncle Bill. Now, I am working through the OS learning curve
(thank's again, Charles, for the gateway help).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>If anyone has some experience with Oracle 8i and RedHat,
I'd like some help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>Right now, I seem to have lost eth0 altogether. I
found this out while tinkering with the oracle networking configs. I
couldn't connect with 192.168.0.100 any more. It had been working up until
this morning, and I had a web site up for several days with Apache. (not the
oracle Apache, but I did enable that this morning, also, just couldn't connect
with it)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>ifconfig returns only for 127.0.0.1</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>ping 192.168.0.100 returns 'Network is
unreachable'</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>linuxconf and the gnome control-panel settings are the
same as when the connection was working, but I'm getting 'Delaying eth0
initialization' errors at reboot and when I 'activate' the interface with
control-panel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>My NIC is a RealTek RTL-8029.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>I'm really not a network or database admin expert, I just
want to write applications. What should I check next to get this NIC back
on line?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>Steve</FONT></DIV>
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