How do i set a static ip address in Mandrake?

[richcoleuk]

I have setup up a box with madrake 10.1 and its running apache. I am behind a router and want to set the linux box of a static ip so i can forward all requests from the outside to that machine. To do this i need to set the machine to have a static ip. I have seen many ways of doing this with windows but can find any with linux? Does anyone know how to do it?

[lakerdonald]

su -
ifconfig eth0 123.123.123.123

[richcoleuk]

sorry, like i said im a newbie. If i wanted to make sure my linux box's ip address was always 192.168.1.105 how would this apply to the code?

su - ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.105?

[lakerdonald]

okay, to do it once, type into the terminal:

su -
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.105

to make it do it at bootup, place this in your /etc/rc5.d/functions:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.105

[richcoleuk]

it works in console, but i cant find the file you referenced?

[lakerdonald]

oh
/etc/init.d/functions?

[richcoleuk]

okay that works, but now i can't get on the internet from that machine??

[lakerdonald]

why? what happens?

[z28com]

What about editing this file?

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

I see this stuff in there to edit for your IP:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.10.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.240
NETWORK=192.168.10.0
BROADCAST=192.168.10.255
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no

[richcoleuk]

it just wont connect, i can't start the eth0 connection?