On 06-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just talked my cable company into going from a dhcp connection (dynamic ip) > to a static IP. Since I've always used dhcp before I'm not quite sure what > to > do. Is there a quick how-to that will say, put your ip, gateway, blah blah > into this file, do this with resolf.conf? >
on potato or newer, look at /etc/network/interfaces. BTW, they can set dhcp up to always give you the same IP. They may have done this instead.