Re: Ifconfig

[Joop Stakenborg <aba@casema.net>]

> 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?

Check the scripts in the /etc/init.d directory.
These are run at boot-time.
Chances are that one of these scripts will configure
your network...

> 
> How do I get it to stay at 192.168.76.76?
> 
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 Joop pa3aba@debian.org