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Re: ip address change...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Tue Oct 29 16:05:37 1996

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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:52:38 -0500
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Skull writes:
>This should be a relatively easy question... what file within redhat 4
>keeps track of my network ip address? I can't remember which one it is,
>and I'm putting together some machines to replace others, but they all have
>to be running at the same time until I'm totally ready.
>I'd like to be able to change the redhat linux's ip address.

IP addresses are assigned on a per-interface basis.  Interfaces are
configured according to the files
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interfacename>[:<aliasnumber>]

You can edit those files by hand (careful!) or use netcfg to do it.

michaelkjohnson

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