mandrake 10.0
i have connected to DHCP address.
when the server is down i do not get IP adress.
[student@ws108 network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=""
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes
[student@ws108 network-scripts]$
[student@ws108 network-scripts]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:18:ED

9
inet addr:10.255.240.104 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fe18:edd9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:362179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16013 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33387890 (31.8 Mb) TX bytes:2192496 (2.0 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:49903 (48.7 Kb) TX bytes:49903 (48.7 Kb)
[student@ws108 network-scripts]$
how to set my file to get a fixed ip addres even though the server is down.