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? ifconfig only affects the current state of the machine; it does not write anything to disk.
You need to edit the definitions in /etc/init.d/network. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." Psalms 145:18
