With RH 8, I think you can run (as root) netconfig

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kevin Brown [SMTP:kevin_brown@qwest.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, January 01, 2003 3:15 PM
To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject:	Re: Problems with network configuration

Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am trying to setup one of my machines with a fixed internal IP address
> instead of getting one from DHCP. I used ifconfig to change the IP 
address
> for eth0, but how do I make it permanent? Every time I reboot, the 
machine
> gets the address from my router via DHCP.

In RH you have to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files 
to
change their setup permanently.  I don't know where it is stored in other 
distros.