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Appendix A Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address

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• If you have a dynamic IP address, click Automatically obtain IP address settings

with and select dhcp from the drop down list.

• If you have a static IP address, click Statically set IP Addresses and fill in the

Address, Subnet mask, and Default Gateway Address fields.

3 Click OK to save the changes and close the Ethernet Device General screen.
4 If you know your DNS server IP address(es), click the DNS tab in the Network

Configuration screen. Enter the DNS server information in the fields provided.

Figure 163 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: DNS

5 Click the Devices tab.
6 Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays. Click Yes

to save the changes in all screens.

Figure 164 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: Activate

7 After the network card restart process is complete, make sure the Status is Active in the

Network Configuration screen.

Using Configuration Files

Follow the steps below to edit the network configuration files and set your computer IP
address.

1 Assuming that you have only one network card on the computer, locate the

ifconfig-

eth0

configuration file (where

eth0

is the name of the Ethernet card). Open the

configuration file with any plain text editor.
• If you have a dynamic IP address, enter

dhcp

in the

BOOTPROTO=

field. The

following figure shows an example.