Re: Ifconfig

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

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?
 
ifconfig only affects the current state of the machine; it does not
write anything to disk.

You need to edit the definitions in /etc/init.d/network.

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