At 01:42 PM 11/23/98 -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: >I have a question about ifconfig. >I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local >network. >I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 >I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > >then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the >machine, and recheck ifconfig -- it's wrong. It resets the IP address to >192.168.1.1 everytime! > >Currently, I do not have this machine physically hooked up to the network, >because I was just doing the configuration and I didn't want to knock >another (very important) machine off the network. If the ethernet card is >not actually hooked up to the network, will that cause this "reset" to >happen upon every boot? > >How do I get it to stay at 192.168.76.76?
You have to set the IP address in the network.local file (/etc/rc.d/network.local on Slackware, haven't gotten around to installing Debian yet). this file is called every time the machine boots to set up networking... Erik > >----------------------------------------------------- >Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... >----------------------------------------------------- > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >