RE: Ifconfig

[Mark Ciciretti <mciciretti@mail.dzn.com>]

Set the IP address in /etc/init.d/network script

On 23-Nov-98 Amanda Shuler wrote:
> I have a question about ifconfig.
> I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local
> network.
> I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76
> I type:
>       ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76
> 
> then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct.  I reboot the
> machine, and recheck ifconfig -- it's wrong.  It resets the IP address
> to
> 192.168.1.1 everytime!  
> 
> Currently, I do not have this machine physically hooked up to the
> network,
> because I was just doing the configuration and I didn't want to knock
> another (very important) machine off the network.  If the ethernet card
> is
> not actually hooked up to the network, will that cause this "reset" to
> happen upon every boot?
> 
> How do I get it to stay at 192.168.76.76?
> 
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E-Mail: Mark Ciciretti <mciciretti@mail.dzn.com>
Date: 23-Nov-98
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