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ZyXEL G-570U User’s Guide
Appendix B Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address 129
• If you have a dynamic IP address, enter
dhcp
in the
BOOTPROTO=
field. The following figure shows an example.
Figure 99 Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0
• If you have a static IP address, enter
static
in the
BOOTPROTO=
field. Type
IPADDR
= followed by the IP address (in dotted decimal
notation) and type
NETMASK
= followed by the subnet mask. The
following example shows an example where the static IP address is
192.168.1.10 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.
Figure 100 Red Hat 9.0: Static IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0
2 If you know your DNS server IP address(es), enter the DNS server information in the
resolv.conf
file in the
/etc
directory. The following figure shows an example where
two DNS server IP addresses are specified.
Figure 101 Red Hat 9.0: DNS Settings in resolv.conf
3 After you edit and save the configuration files, you must restart the network card. Enter
./network restart
in the
/etc/rc.d/init.d
directory. The following figure
shows an example.
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=
192.168.1.10
NETMASK= 255.255.255.0
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
nameserver 172.23.5.1
nameserver 172.23.5.2