Thursday, April 16, 2009

Redhat Linux IP configuration eth0

Find the file ifcfg-eth0 normally in the directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

If an static ip address is used it should look something like:


DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
NETWORK=10.0.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=10.0.1.27
USERCTL=no


When DHCP is used it should look like:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes


After the ifcfg-eth0 file is changed the network must be restarted this can be done with the following command:

service network restart

Did this post help you in any way can you please leave a comment? This will motivate me writing more posts.

3 comments:

  1. Hi,

    This helped a bit. But could you also explain how to set up the dhcp server in linux so that eth0 gets a Class C address

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  2. I read some of your other post the main common thing I appreciate in your blogs is to the point description its not making a short story long.Its really good when we have shortage of time and need a thing that actually works.good Work.Keep it up!

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  3. Thanks a lot! It worked on my Oracle Linux in my VM.

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