Hi,
I am a newbie and thought it would be appropriate to post in this part of forum because it relates to networking. I have recently installed VMware workstation on windows and have installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 5(which is same as Redhat 5)in it. The windows box is connected to a router (WRT54G).

I am working my way to configure a static IP to my virtual linux server so that everytime it boots up it will get the same IP from the router (say 192.168.1.110). I search through red hat documents and got a little idea that something has to be configured with the dhcp client configuration files (etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) but i am unable to figure out the exact procedure of doing it like what all files needs to be configured, etc. It would be a great help if someone could throw some light on it.

Thanks in advance,
Harris.

I am not aware about vmware. The simple way is to through GUI.

System--->Administration--->network

It will ask you for root password

then network configuration windows will appear

with NIC device.

Double click

you wud see the options

1. Automatically ..................

2 Static IP.


Uncheck the first.

check the second . gave the ip

# Service network restart or restart the computer



or 2nd ooption is

$su -

#system-config-network

hopefully it will help

Hi,
I did the following and it worked. Don't know how it is different from configuring the DHCP client on the linux box.

I added the following entry to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0


BOOTPROTO=STATIC
IPADDR=192.168.1.110

And restarted the network interface

/etc/init.d/network stop

then

/etc/init.d/network start


This has been persistent through reboots.


I would be glad to know if there are any more ways of doing this.


Thanks,
Harris.

Did you make sure to assign the VM a bridged network interface? The default is NAT'd, which won't work with a static IP the way you assigned it.

Yes, all the virtual hosts that i have are using VMWare bridge networking. I have selected the default and that is what it gave me, bridge network.