Vern Heesch
Administrator
Newbie
Posts: 23
|
 |
Static IP Addressing configuration
« on: June 30, 2005, 01:04:35 AM »
|
|
This howto is intended to provide the information needed to set up Static IP Addressing. I use Mandrake linux and am not sure how closely other distro's follow the same file naming scheme.
Setting up Static IP Addressing involves checking and/or editing 4 files. You may want to make copies of your current files just so you have them to fall back on if something goes wrong. The files are:
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/hosts
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
(your ifcfg file may differ, eth0, eth1, wlan0, etc.)
These are the fields required for the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file:
(this is an example, replace values appropriately for your network. This example includes wireless, if you don't have wireless leave out those fields)
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.0.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=any
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=""
Next is the /etc/sysconfig/network file:
HOSTNAME=something-cool
NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
GATEWAYDEV=eth1
The /etc/hosts file needs the IP and Hostname added to it:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.2 something-cool
Last is the /etc/resolv.conf file which contains the DNS IP's:
nameserver 205.221.122.145
nameserver 205.221.122.142
Once the 4 files have been checked and edited, simply restart the network as root:
service network restart
I hope this was helpful and clear enough to understand what needs to be done to use Static IP Addressing.
|
Author
Logged