On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Hemminger,  Jeffrey D. wrote:

> ah ha! ifconfig eth0 ... up

where you can do this, and it "works" it is not the redhat way...

if each of these computers has only 1 network card then use netconfig, 
much easier to use, 

and instead of DNS just put the IPs inthe /etc/hosts file...

 -munir