Add ipv4 support to CentOS 6.3

Question

I've installed two identical versions of CentOS using VirtualBox. The first instance works fine and has ipv4 configuration automatically working, but the second instance doesn't; it only comes with ipv6 and no ipv4. How can I manually add ipv4 support?

Answer 1

Have a look in /etc/sysconfig/network and see if NETWORK=yes is set on the machine without ipv4. That is normally what turns on netowrking if the appropriate packages are installed.

if it is missing add it and run service network restart . I think that will help.

See /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.03.31 for docco.