keeping static ip address alive between restarts

keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[William Stanard]

Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed
 ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What additional command
should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not have to
ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's Running
Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby the settings
are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using vi, for
example) edit certain files myself? 

Bill Stanard



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Re: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[Ray Olszewski]

At 10:30 AM 2/20/2004 -0500, William Stanard wrote:
>Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed
>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
>to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What additional command
>should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not have to
>ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's Running
>Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby the settings
>are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using vi, for
>example) edit certain files myself?


As you've gathered from your reading, there is no *standard* procedure for 
doing this in Linux/Unix (except in terms too general to be of use). Each 
Linux distro has a different approach to automating this process, and I 
don't know which of them Red Hat uses.

As a general matter, there will be a script run by the init process that 
starts up networking. It may run the ifconfig command directly (as 
Slackware does, for instance) or by way of some external program (as Debian 
does, using the command "ifup -a", which in turn relies on the text file 
/etc/network/interfaces).

I waited awhile before responding to you in the hope that some Red Hat user 
here would give you the RH-specific answer. Perhaps someone still will. If 
not, you'll need to look through the init scripts on your system (even the 
locations of these scripts varies from distro to distro, but you can track 
them down by looking for the base script listed in /etc/inittab for 
single-user mode, then for the default runlevel) for the one that starts 
networking.

Some versions of RH have a setup interface that can be used to start 
networking in a way that will do the init-script editing for you. If yours 
doesn't include that, you will have to edit some file using vi (or your 
text editor of choice).

Sorry I cannot be more specific here ... as I say, you really need to hear 
back from someone else who uses RH 8.



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Re: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[Hal MacArgle]

Greetings: As Ray says; RH may be different but Slackware, all
versions, have a file: rc.local, that's found -> /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
where you merely enter whatever command you want for each and every
future boot...

Disregard if RH doesn't have such an animal.

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
		Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam


On 02-20, William Stanard wrote:
> Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed
>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
> to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What additional command
> should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not have to
> ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's Running
> Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby the settings
> are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using vi, for
> example) edit certain files myself? 
> 
> Bill Stanard
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RE: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[Chadha, Devesh]

Hi,

In the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts path, you would have files named like
ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1 etc. You need to add this address to one of those
files. If your interface is eth0, edit ifcfg-eth0 and make the necessary
changes.

That would make the change permanent. Whenever you restart, the network
script in rc.d/init.d would pick up the info.

Regards,
Devesh


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[mailto:linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hal MacArgle
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:24 PM
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: keeping static ip address alive between restarts


Greetings: As Ray says; RH may be different but Slackware, all versions,
have a file: rc.local, that's found -> /etc/rc.d/rc.local, where you merely
enter whatever command you want for each and every future boot...

Disregard if RH doesn't have such an animal.

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
		Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam


On 02-20, William Stanard wrote:
> Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed  ifconfig 
> eth0 192.168.0.1 to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What 
> additional command should I use to write that address permanently, so 
> that I do not have to ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and 
> reread O'Reilly's Running Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there 
> no process whereby the settings are written to the correct files for 
> startup, or must I (using vi, for
> example) edit certain files myself?
> 
> Bill Stanard
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Re: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[Andrey V. Romanchev]

Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: As Ray says; RH may be different but Slackware, all
> versions, have a file: rc.local, that's found -> /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
> where you merely enter whatever command you want for each and every
> future boot...

OMG :)
There is more proper place in Slackware to set static ip address
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf (only since 9.1)

or just run netconfig
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RE: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[james niland]

You wrote:
Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed
 ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What additional
command
should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not
have 
to
ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's
Running
Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby
the 
settings
are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using
vi, for
example) edit certain files myself? 

Bill Stanard
***********************************************

I personally prefer editing a startup script but Redhat seems to
do these things with GUI tools.
Have a look here
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/
Especially the section III

cheers
James
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RE: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[Michael Anaya]

> You wrote:
> Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed
>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
> to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What additional
> command
> should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not
> have 
> to
> ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's
> Running
> Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby
> the 
> settings
> are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using
> vi, for
> example) edit certain files myself? 
> 
> Bill Stanard
> ***********************************************
> 
> I personally prefer editing a startup script but Redhat seems to
> do these things with GUI tools.
> Have a look here
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/
> Especially the section III
> 
> cheers
> James
try using "linuxconf" as root. 

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RE: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[Chadha, Devesh]

I believe linuxconf has been discontinued in RH Linux.

Regards,
Devesh


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Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:40 PM
To: Linux-Newbie
Subject: RE: keeping static ip address alive between restarts



> You wrote:
> Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed  ifconfig 
> eth0 192.168.0.1 to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What 
> additional command
> should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not
> have 
> to
> ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's
> Running
> Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby
> the 
> settings
> are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using
> vi, for
> example) edit certain files myself? 
> 
> Bill Stanard
> ***********************************************
> 
> I personally prefer editing a startup script but Redhat seems to do 
> these things with GUI tools. Have a look here
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/
> Especially the section III
> 
> cheers
> James
try using "linuxconf" as root. 

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Re: keeping static ip address alive between restarts

[pa3gcu]

On Friday 20 February 2004 20:11, Andrey V. Romanchev wrote:
> OMG :)
> There is more proper place in Slackware to set static ip address
> /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf (only since 9.1)
>
> or just run netconfig

The question was concerning Redhat NOT Slackware.

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