changing my ip

j0ck · 01-28-2003, 12:17 PM

this is soooo embarrassing..... I have RH 7.2 on my laptop and its works great for accessing the Internet through the network, but, I want to be able to ping other computers and other stuff.
I have looked (in the wrong places no doubt) and cant find any where that tells me how to change my ip so i can be on the same network as the other computers.
I cant even find out how to set it to dhcp.
I really do have a brain.... I just had it out playing with it the other night.

thanx for all the help.
jt

Mara · 01-28-2003, 01:34 PM

You need to change IP assigned to your NIC (or one of your NICs, or...), not to your machine (it may have many IPs). To change your IP to a static one, you use 'ifconfig'. It looks like this:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.4
It changes the IP of first NIC to 192.168.1.4.

j0ck · 01-28-2003, 03:28 PM

arg!!!!! i knew that........ thank you for the help that is the command i was looking for.

j0ck · 01-29-2003, 12:01 PM

I tried the ifconfig (as root) and got command not found.
there is a file that i edited and changed my ip and the subnet to get me on my network.
i cant find it now and dont remember where i got that info
this has been months ago.
thanks for all the help.....

tied2 · 01-29-2003, 07:39 PM

Are actualy loged in as root or super user? on my RH 7.3 ifconfig wont run from a SU command it only runs as root.