Changing IP but not visible in ifconfig
 

Hi Friends,

I have installed SuSE Linux Enterprise server 10 on VM Ware workstation. I have changed ip, so that i can access it via my host machine. but IP changes are not reflected in ifconfig output.


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testmachine:~ # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4128 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:4128 (4.0 Kb)

testmachine:~ # cd /etc/sysconfig/network
testmachine:/etc/sysconfig/network # ls -ltr
total 65
drwx------ 2 root root 48 May 3 2007 providers
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 May 4 2007 ifroute-lo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27470 May 4 2007 ifcfg.template
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 208 Nov 28 2012 ifservices.template
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1272 Nov 28 2012 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 88 Nov 28 2012 if-up.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 88 Nov 28 2012 if-down.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6736 Jan 18 16:20 dhcp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 18 17:02 routes.YaST2save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jan 18 17:02 ifcfg-eth-id-00:0c:29:bb:a9:3f
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141 Jan 18 17:04 ifcfg-lo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9254 Jan 18 17:05 config
testmachine:/etc/sysconfig/network # cat ifcfg-eth-id-00:0c:29:bb:a9:3f
BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST=''
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
IPADDR='192.168.0.10'
MTU=''
NAME='VMWare 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)'
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='auto'
UNIQUE='rBUF.5dU8kR7eh2C'
USERCONTROL='no'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:02:01.0'
testmachine:/etc/sysconfig/network # service network restart
Shutting down network interfaces:
eth1 device: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
No configuration found for eth1
Nevertheless the interface will be shut down. done
Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . done
Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config
Setting up network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done
eth1 device: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
No configuration found for eth1 unused
Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . done
testmachine:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4780 (4.6 Kb) TX bytes:4780 (4.6 Kb)

testmachine:/etc/sysconfig/network #
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Please help me on this!!

Regards

Umesh

Notice that warnings have a distinct meaning: do not to ignore them.

In this case you don't have a "/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1" configuration file as in

thanks mate.. That worked..

Regards

Umesh