There are a few things you'll have to do to set this up.

Do an ifconfig eth0 down to bring the adapter down (assuming that eth0 is your ethernet device)

Firstly, edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file and get the network configuration as you should want it.

For example, without DHCP, something like
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
ONBOOT=yes

All these settings are dependant on your particular network, however.


You can then either reboot, or run the ifup command (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0) or (/sbin/ifup eth0) depending on where it's located, or just do an "ifconfig eth0 up", and that should bring the interface back up.

Run "ifconfig -a" to see what eth0 is doing!

You may need to add a route do the default gateway too, depending on your setup.

You'll need to make the appropriate entry in /etc/hosts for the new static IP

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