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P-660HW-T v2 User’s Guide

Appendix E 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 171 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 172 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 173 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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