Hi tried that when I deactivate and reactivate eth0 to get the new settings the system changes the ifcfg-eth0 file back to what "IT" thinks is what it should be also a restart does this. Screws it all up and I get no connectivity Driving me crazy Cheers -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Molloy Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 14:09 To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: root login On Tuesday 02 December 2008 12:39:31 Nick wrote: > Hi All > > > > With F10 if I use DHCP to assign my IP address everything goes OK > > I get an IP address and a subnet mask and I get access to the interent > > > > If I try to statically assign the IP address > You need to manually edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and put in IPADDR=xxx NETMASK=xxx If you had installed using the "askmethod" method you could have set the static address at install time. Tony > > > > > Many thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
