Re: Checking Dynamic IP Address!!!!

["Pichai Asokan" <pasokan@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "K. Arun" <kar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Checking Dynamic IP Address!!!!


> >>>>> "Elamurugu" == Elamurugu Kandasamy <xelamurugu@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
>   Elamurugu>    2. How can i assign my Static IP address to my Linux
>   Elamurugu> Box. Assume that i already registred my domain name in
>
>         Strictly speaking, you don't assign IP addresses to
> boxes/machines, but to network interfaces (eth cards). The command to
> bind IP address x.x.x.x to your first (maybe, only) Ethernet card is:
>
> # /sbin/ifconfig  eth0 x.x.x.x
>
>         There is a long list of options to ifconfig, read the man
> page.
>
>         Naturally, you don't want to be doing this every time you boot
> your system. Put the ifconfig command somewhere in your start-up
> scripts, so that addresses automatically get assigned on boot-up. This
> is distribution specific.

> On a Debian machine, you'd put the above
> command in the file, /etc/init.d/network.
That has changed a little with potato (for the poor non-Debian users'
benefit: potato is version 2.2 of Debian)

There is an /etc/network/interfaces file; and it has examples for many
ethernet combinations; dhcp etc.,
I am currently on the other OS :-< So I am unable to send a sample.

P Asokan

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