Re: problem fixing eth0 IP
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:29:04AM +0000, Robert Cates wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just got my new machine running Etch. This machine is a server, so no
> GUI or XWindows. I have the DHCP3-Client and DHCP3-common installed (by
> default) which gets an IP just fine. But now I want to assign a fixed
> non-DHCP IP to the NIC.
>
> I can use ifconfig to change the IP, but when I reboot the machine, DHCP
> gets the other IP again. How can I fix this so that the IP I want assigned
> is permanent?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Robert
Most time on a Debian system, you edit /etc/network/interfaces. ´man
interfaces' should get you started. Ask here again if this is not
helpful and give more details.
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