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ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

Appendix D Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address

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If you have a dynamic IP address, enter

dhcp

in the

BOOTPROTO=

field. The following figure shows an example.

Figure 476 Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0

If you have a static IP address, enter

static

in the

BOOTPROTO=

field. Type

IPADDR

= followed by the IP address (in dotted decimal

notation) and type

NETMASK

= followed by the subnet mask. The

following example shows an example where the static IP address is
192.168.1.10 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.

Figure 477 Red Hat 9.0: Static IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0

2 If you know your DNS server IP address(es), enter the DNS server information in the

resolv.conf

file in the

/etc

directory. The following figure shows an example where

two DNS server IP addresses are specified.

Figure 478 Red Hat 9.0: DNS Settings in resolv.conf

3 After you edit and save the configuration files, you must restart the network card. Enter

./network restart

in the

/etc/rc.d/init.d

directory. The following figure

shows an example.

DEVICE=eth0

ONBOOT=yes

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

USERCTL=no

PEERDNS=yes

TYPE=Ethernet

DEVICE=eth0

ONBOOT=yes

BOOTPROTO=static

IPADDR=192.168.1.10

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

USERCTL=no

PEERDNS=yes

TYPE=Ethernet

nameserver 172.23.5.1

nameserver 172.23.5.2

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