Convert Dynamic IP into Static IP in RHEL 5.3

[vaibhavdixit412]

Hi,

presently my system get a dynamic ip & i wanna to change it into static IP.
Please advice me how to change ip in RHEL 5

Thanks
Vaibhav

[Roxoff]

You can use the 'system-config-network' tool to change your IPs about on the local system. If you're going to use a static, you may find that network-level changes are needed so that the IP addresses you're allocating aren't in the block allocated by the DHCP server.

[vaibhavdixit412]

hi
thanks for reply
i have convert ip by using system-config-network but when i restart my server it take dynamic ip

[abarclay]

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
----
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.37.255
IPADDR=192.168.37.12
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.37.0
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.37.1
----

[vaibhavdixit412]

Hi,
Thanks for replly

it's work properly
thanks buddy