Re: Ifconfig
At 01:42 PM 11/23/98 -0500, 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?
You have to set the IP address in the network.local file
(/etc/rc.d/network.local on Slackware, haven't gotten around to installing
Debian yet).
this file is called every time the machine boots to set up networking...
Erik
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