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Appendix A Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address
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Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays.
Click Yes to save the changes in all screens.
Figure 141 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: Activate
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After the network card restart process is complete, make sure the Status is
Active in the Network Configuration screen.
Using Configuration Files
Follow the steps below to edit the network configuration files and set your
computer IP address.
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Assuming that you have only one network card on the computer, locate the
ifconfig-eth0
configuration file (where eth0 is the name of the Ethernet card).
Open the configuration file with any plain text editor.
• If you have a dynamic IP address, enter dhcp in the BOOTPROTO= field. The
following figure shows an example.
Figure 142 Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet