You could use: ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.x route add default gw 10.0.0.y And use ssh to connect and change files with vi.
As Mark and Marcy already said, you probably missed setting the default gateway. Try pinging it (ping -c 2 gateway-ip) and see if you can connect. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2013/10/23 Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> > >>> On 10/23/2013 at 11:58 AM, "Chase, John" <jch...@ussco.com> wrote: > > After learning "the hard way" that vi doesn't play well with a 3270 > console > > session, we tried changing the IP address of a Linux machine in > ifcfg-eth0 > > with sed. After changing the address and rebooting Linux (probably > overkill, > > but....), we are unable to connect a putty session to Linux with the > > workstation connected to the DR network. On the 3270 console, we issue > > ifconfig and see that eth0 has the DR network addresses; but still we > cannot > > connect to it with putty. > > > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > Did you also change the default gateway for the systems? > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
