AIX

I want to change my ip by not using smitty, could please help me and what to edit files. So that everytime i will restart my server it will not change.

(man) ifconfig

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Chaninging the IP address with ifconfig does not live through reboot because then you are only changing running system and not the ODM.
Do a "lsattr -El enX" where X is the number of the ethernet device the ip address resides on. There you will see what parameters to change with chdev command.
Note that if you are moving to a different network and require a different route then the route is stored in the device inet0 - "lsattr -El inet0". A chdev would be required there as well for the route change, if neccessary.

True, but the threadstarter wanted exactly this behavior:

Or have i gotten him wrong?

bakunin

isn't it so that you can view the commands smitty is going to perform by hitting [F6] in the window you are in?

with that option you can figure out what statement(s) to perform from command line to achieve what you want..
(you need to look in smitty once...)

its true we can change Ip in command line using ifconfig,
same goes to solaris you can change ip by ifconfig. But what im trying to say, when you restart your server the one changed the ip it will goes back to its normal IP.

the one written in /etc/inet/ipnodes for solaris or /etc/rc/config.d/netconf for HP. So what im trying to say, you need to edit those files in order it will be permanent.

So you guys know, where are these so called config files in aix? All i know was linux,solaris and HP.
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Yes, that is right. Alas, these scripts are sometimes a bit counterintuitive and hard to read.

bakunin