FYI - I am running a Debian distro, and the file is
/etc/network/interfaces. The man page for interfaces describes how to make
the changes need.
Thanks!
Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
480 945-0798
480 945-9197 fax
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-----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.
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