Appendix A Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address
•If you have a dynamic IP address, click Automatically obtain IP address settings with and select dhcp from the drop down list.
•If you have a static IP address, click Statically set IP Addresses and fill in the Address, Subnet mask, and Default Gateway Address fields.
3Click OK to save the changes and close the Ethernet Device General screen.
4If you know your DNS server IP address(es), click the DNS tab in the Network Configuration screen. Enter the DNS server information in the fields provided.
Figure 44 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: DNS
5Click the Devices tab.
6Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays. Click Yes to save the changes in all screens.
Figure 45 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: Activate
7After the network card restart process is complete, make sure the Status is Active in the Network Configuration screen.
Using Configuration Files
Follow the steps below to edit the network configuration files and set your computer IP address.
1Assuming that you have only one network card on the computer, locate the ifconfig- eth0 configuration file (where eth0 is the name of the Ethernet card). Open the configuration file with any plain text editor.
•If you have a dynamic IP address, enter dhcp in the BOOTPROTO= field. The following figure shows an example.
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