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Network Connection not getting up in RHEL 6

After installing RHEL 6 you may not be able to get network connection up on booting the machine.
This is a reported bug in RHEL 6.

 Follow below steps to solve the issue.

 Edit  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0  file, which is your default first NIC configuration file.

If you are using DHCP server:

 Edit below file and change as given below

 #vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
ONBOOT="yes"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
Save & restart networking service,

 #service network restart 

If you are providing manual IP:
Edit below file and change as given below

 #vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

 DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.10.110.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.10.10.0
GATEWAY=192.9.110.253
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
Save & restart networking service,

 #service network restart

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