Re: [SLUG] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP

[Ben Donohue <donohueb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Voytek,

edit /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0

Get it to look something like the following...

# Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=10.1.2.255
IPADDR=10.1.2.250
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.1.2.0
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=10.1.2.253
TYPE=Ethernet
PEERDNS=yes
USERCTL=no

if there is a line in there with HW= or HWARE= with a mac address like 
2B:3C:F2:...  you can remove it without any dramas.

Ben




On 30/07/2010 12:26 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I have am old clunker with Centos 5.x,
>
> it appears it developed NIC probs, couldn't reach it, when screen plugged
> in, screen blank
>
> on power up, it gave some eth0 messages;
>
> I removed the 3COM PCI NIC, starred at it for a while whilst nodding my
> head, then, put it back in
>
> machine booted OK, BUT, is now on DHCP address, not what it was, fixed IP
>
> I've 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5....' ; 'route add -net...'
>
> that returned it desired IP OK, but, on reboot, it reverts to DHCP
>
> what do I need to make it stick ?
>
> (tried editing some /etc/sysconfig files, but, it was telling something
> about hardlinks, so I didn't)
>
>
>
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