Change Ip address

luisator · 05-31-2005, 07:55 AM

Hi everybody! I am kind of new with linux. I installed Fedora 2 in my PC. I need to change my Ip address to add the PC into a Lan for an specific application. Can anybody help me telling me, step by step what I should do???? I really need to now how to do this very fast!!!! Hope is not too difficult!

mariusak · 05-31-2005, 08:08 AM

dont have time to give you the step by step, but if you type ifconfig --help , you should understand the rest yourself..

-Marius

srinathnitk · 06-02-2005, 12:03 AM

Type setup at the command prompt and then select network from that then u can assign IP address..

kiraninfotech · 06-02-2005, 04:03 AM

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Originally posted by luisator
Hi everybody! I am kind of new with linux. I installed Fedora 2 in my PC. I need to change my Ip address to add the PC into a Lan for an specific application. Can anybody help me telling me, step by step what I should do???? I really need to now how to do this very fast!!!! Hope is not too difficult!

Edit the config file with command
#vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (eth0 is the 1st ethrnet interface)

DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=x.x.x.x
NETMASK=x.x.x.x
GATEWAY=x.x.x.x

Replace the parameters save the file and restart network service.
Done Enjoy!!