Change dynamic ip to static ip

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Fedora 12 64bit


What will be the correct steps changing dynamic IP to static IP on F12 console, instead of on Gnome running;

System -> Administration -> Network -> Edit, etc.
???


I made following test;

Edited ifcfg-eth0

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

# Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.0.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
HWADDR=00:26:18:44:B6:1A
ONBOOT=yes

# /etc/init.d/network restart

Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:                                [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0.origin_20100211:  
Determining IP information for eth0...dhclient(25343) is already running - exiting. 

This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available
on ftp.isc.org.  Features have been added and other changes
have been made to the base software release in order to make
it work better with this distribution.

Please report for this software via the Red Hat Bugzilla site:
    http://bugzilla.redhat.com

exiting.
 failed.
                                                           [FAILED]

Failed.


Then I took further step;

Edited rc.local as follows;

$ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.200
netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.0.1

Rebooted PC. Then it worked.


Please advise. TIA


B.R.
satimis

[coopstah13]

your error is in there, seems pretty obvious that it is trying to load the backed up file

Bringing up interface eth0.origin_20100211:  
Determining IP information for eth0...dhclient(25343) is already running - exiting.

[satimis]

your error is in there, seems pretty obvious that it is trying to load the backed up file

Bringing up interface eth0.origin_20100211:  
Determining IP information for eth0...dhclient(25343) is already running - exiting.

Hi coopstah13,

Thanks for your advice.

Even after removing that backup file it still can't work without the file rc.local.

B.R.
satimis

[coopstah13]

mine works just fine, it is like yours, only thing I don't have is about peerdns, not sure what that is, try taking it out

[satimis]

mine works just fine, it is like yours, only thing I don't have is about peerdns, not sure what that is, try taking it out

Hi coopstah13,

peerdns was added later. Before adding it networking also failed.

Now I did it through GUI to save time and effort.

Thanks for your help.

B.R.
satimis