Hi, I am on CentOS 5.3 and i don’t find the files you have mentioned. Can you please give me a brief explanation or the command that actually will allow me to assign persistent(across reboots) addresses.
Thank you, Vivek S > -----Original Message----- > From: kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org [mailto:kernelnewbies- > bou...@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of micro...@virginbroadband.com.au > Sent: 08 September 2009 15:35 > To: Kernelnewbies > Subject: Re: Ip address assignment > > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:10:48 -0700, "Vivek Subbarao" > <viv...@chelsio.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is > the > > behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses > why > > not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to > this? > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Vivek S > > > I guess you already knew this, but you can make ifconfig assign > consistent > names. > See > etc/udev/static-nic.rules > or > /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net.rules > > HTH > Kris > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
