Newbie needs help on IP configuration

sunny · 05-03-2002, 01:48 PM

I am newbie of Linux.

Would you pls kindly tell me how to configure IP on an Linux server.

I need assign new ip address, subnet mask, and gateway to my computer.

Thank you.

Mara · 05-03-2002, 02:15 PM

You use route and ifconfig commands to configure this. You can read more when you type man route and man ifconfig.
To assign IP to a nic type
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
where eth0 is your nic and 192.168.1.1 ip you'd like to give to it.
Default gateway:
route add default gw 192.168.1.0
(example)
Route to a subnet
route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
This sends all packets to 192.168.2.x to eth0

sunny · 05-03-2002, 02:54 PM

Thank you very much...