setting up ip adresse manually

snu · 07-06-2003, 01:22 PM

Hi everyone
I never hab problems with my network and i think this question is easy to answer. As long as i used debian (until yesterday) There was a setup program for ip adress gateway and so on. Today i installed gentoo. I completed the setup and there i made my network configuration by the program that was on the cd. but that is not installed on my partition. So I wanted to configure manually. I think i have to write the configuration in /etc/resolve.conf but i am not sure. I had tried it, but the problem is that i dont know what to write befor my ip adresse , the gateway broadcast and so on.
I remind that it stated with somrthing like
auto eth0 static dhcp

thanx
chewy

Robert0380 · 07-06-2003, 01:50 PM

ok /etc/resolv.conf is for listing name servers, use for resolving host names. it is not used to set you ip address. if you want your ip to be set each time for when you boot up, you can edit the appropriate ifcfg-ethX file located in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

here is an example, this is my ifcfg-eth0:

Code:


DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes

make sure you have an understanding of what each file does before you just start adding stuff to them.

snu · 07-06-2003, 01:58 PM

Thanks.
And where to put the gateway?

Robert0380 · 07-06-2003, 02:14 PM

type in the command :

#route add default 192.168.1.1

but exchange 192.168.1.1 for you gateway ip address, this will set your
default route to the address of you gateway.