On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 13:34, Reza wrote: > hi... > Actually I got static IP from rogers, but the weird > thing is instead of having clientd-id as my hostname, > I got my computer name in the host.. so, can you > please help me in details?
So you actually call if-up with static in the /etc/interfaces file? If thats the case you're going to set your /etc/hostname to the one they gave you and make sure /etc/hosts has aliases to whatever name you want to call your machine locally. 127.0.0.1 theirname whateveryouwant If it's a "static" ip from dhcp protocol then you are going to need to add an option in your /etc/network/interfaces file to the effect of: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname whateveryouwant --mike
