Problems with network configuration

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Author: George Gambill
Date:  
Subject: Problems with network configuration
With RH 8, I think you can run (as root) netconfig

-----Original Message-----
From:    Kevin Brown [SMTP:]
Sent:    Wednesday, January 01, 2003 3:15 PM
To:    
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.