Networking :: small netowrk question

if ifup doesnt work try

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ifconfig eth0 up

does your server box need to be dhcp??

Brian
AwPhuch

nope, i want it to have a static address, in fact i net card configed it to have one.

when i ifup eth0 then it adopts the static addressing i gave it at the time of install.

ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 (or whatever)

if you do a ifconfig -a it will show you what you have

you can also create a script to auto-input all this for you

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touch /usr/sbin/ethernet.setup

inside that file add

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#!/bin/bash
# setting up eth0 with static ip
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 <---change this to whatever ip you want

Then in the /etc/rc5.d/S99localboot put in the command line /usr/sbin/ethernet.setup
You also have to make it executable

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chmod 700 /usr/sbin/ethernet.setup

You can either reboot to test or type /usr/sbin/ethernet.setup and it will run it

P.S. "ifconfig --help" gives you the output of what you can set with the ifconfig command

Brian
AwPhuch

thanks for this.

did all you told me to and after a reboot i got a message just above the login prompt saying...

/etc/rc5.d/S99bootlocal: line 4: /usr/sbin/ethernet.setup: permission denied.

i assigned all permissions to the ethernet.setup file just in case (rwxrwxrwx)

hmmm at least you are managing to get some response out of it!

regards.

steve.

Quote (realpc @ Oct. 21 2004,14:43)

is it owned by root or another account?

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cd /usr/sbin : ls -lah

chown root:root /usr/sbin/ethernet.setup

I just tested on mine and it works fine...

Brian
AwPhuch

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