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Description of problem:
If I boot the redhat 2.4.7 kernel that shipped with 7.2 the if{up,down}
scripts run fine.. and I get no errors while booting or when I run /sbin/ip
-o link BUT:

upon booting redhat 7.2 with the very same custom 2.4.x kernels that worked
perfectly fine with initscripts-5.84 under redhat 7.1; I see that all my
network interfaces fail when they attempt to be bought up with the error:
"Cannot send dump request: Connection refused" .  

manually attempting to bring up the loopback interface with: ifup lo fails
with the same error message, but its return code is 0... strange.

Also, when I then try: /sbin/ip -o link  I get that same "..: Connection
refused" error.  

Using the ifup from initscripts-5.84, instead of initscripts-6.40, with my
custom linux kernel; I was able to bring up all my interfaces without any
problems.  However, ifdown from both initscript versions does _not_ work
under Redhat 7.2 with my kernel; I can send my .config if you really
question the basic networking ability of my custom 2.4.14 kernel; my
orinoco wireless card works just fine... below you'll see the network
protocols my kernel supports.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot non-RedHat linux kernel >=2.4.13
2. ifup lo
3. /sbin/ip -o link
	

Actual Results:  1. you see network interfaces [FAILED] during bootup
2 & 3. "Cannot send dump request: Connection refused"

Expected Results:  the interfaces should've been brought up

Additional info:

these are my network entries from /proc/net as seen with my custom 2.4.14
kernel:
arp            netstat        rt_cache       softnet_stat   wireless
dev            packet         rt_cache_stat  tcp            
dev_mcast      raw            snmp           udp            
netlink        route          sockstat       unix