Manually assigning ip address using Slackware
 

Hello. I am trying to assign a static ip address using Slackware 2.4.26. This is the command that I am typing in:

ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy up route -n add default gw zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz

I did this once before and it worked. Now I get an error statement that says "Host name lookup failure". When I do ifconfig to see the ip settings they all look correct except for the gateway value. That was not accepted for some reason and of course I can't reach the internet to download my Nessus updates.

Can anyone help? Thanks

http://www.slackbook.org/html/networ...ion-tcpip.html

I think adding ".local" onto the end of your hostname would fix your issues, that and assigning the proper gateway and dns as well.

Hope that helps some.

So it would look like: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.local? This would be for the static ip address value I presume? Thanks

You have two commands on one line. They need to be separated.

or if you prefer one line, separate them with a semicolon