change

[susek]

please how can I change the ipaddress for redhat 6.2
and the hostname also?

[rbo83]

Are you using the graphic mode or terminal mode ?

If you are not using the graphic mode (X) you must issue the following commands at the
terminal, and as root user :

Use the 'hostname' command (see the manpage 'man hostname') to set the host name, or change the /etc/hostname file manually

Use the 'ifconfig' command (see the manpage 'man ifconfig') to set the IP address and the netmask

and reboot.

[scottro]

I don't believe there is an /etc/hostname by default. You can use /etc/sysconfig/network to set the hostname.

As for the IP address, the ifconfig page doesn't give you the files you want to edit. (It's a pretty awful man page in my opinion--compare it to any of the BSD ifconfig manpages.)

The file you'll want is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

You'll want it to look somethng like (let's say your desired IP address is 192.168.1.190 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.25
HWADDR=00:01:02:03:04:05
IPADDR=192.168.1.190
IPV6ADDR=
IPV6PREFIX=
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
ONBOOT=yes


After doing that, you might have to manually set the network and default gateway once.

route add -net 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 eth0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
(Although gateway might also be put in the /etc/sysconfig/network file.)

After doing all that
/etc/init.d/network restart

(this will briefly disconnect you from the network.)

Then you should be good to go.

[susek]

please can you tell me excatly how I use the commands and edit the page
to change the ipaddress and the hostname .because I use terminal mode only.


regards

Umm, maybe you should pay for RedHat support, especially since 6.2 is rather antique.

Wayne

[scottro]

Thanks Wayne, I missed the 6.2 part.
Back then, I think there was a command that would bring up a curses based (it shows in console--it's sort of like console but had a blue background) thing to configure your network. I'm afraid I've forgotten the name, you can try typing net and hitting the tab key--probably something like net-config netcfg or something similar. If you get that command, it should give you a dialog box to change the settings.

However, I could be wrong--I haven't used 6.2 in--hrrm, 7 years or so?

You've got to read the small-print Scott

It's a bit like going into a windows forum and asking for help on DOS and Win 3.11

Wayne

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Wayne

Umm, maybe you should pay for RedHat support, especially since 6.2 is rather antique.

Wayne

Well that leaves me free to move the thread as it isn't Fedora related.




Moved to Linux Chat

[kurzer]

I don't know if
redhat-config-network-tui
already existed. You could also try
linuxconf
to configure your system.

[mmdm]

Start dialog box for network configuration as root with:

netconfig