Appendix A Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address

6Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays. Click Yes to save the changes in all screens.

Figure 176 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-eth0configuration 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.

Figure 177 Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0

DEVICE=eth0

ONBOOT=yes

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

USERCTL=no

PEERDNS=yes

TYPE=Ethernet

 

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