You can also install etherconf to set up static and dynamic addresses. apt-get install etherconf If you ever need to change the static IP addresses you will need to: dpkg-reconfigure etherconf Jeff Rasmussen > Message: 11 > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:30:14 -0500 > From: Shawn <sfertch at real-time.com> > To: TCLUG <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: [TCLUG] Permanent IP change > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Apologies on a simple question, but it's escaping my head right > now, and I can't find an answer readily out of the the books I have > in front of me. > > At the installfest, we got Debian running on my system. However, > I need to make a network IP change to it. Currently, it's running > DHCP. I need to make it a permanent static address. > > I know I can issue the command of: > # ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > And this will assign the IP address. However, it's only good > temporarily until the box is rebooted. What files/commands to I > need to issue or modify to make this a permanent change? > > Looking in the /etc/network directory, there is an interfaces > file with NIC info. Is this the correct one? If so, what should > it look like for static IP's and netmask? > > On Slackware, I did a "netconfig" and an interactive prompt came > up. > > Thanks, appreciate any help on this. > > > -- > Shawn > > The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. > > Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list