Hi Ratin, On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:22:21PM -0700, Ratin wrote: > I am not sure if this is the right mailing list (new here) but > how would you change the IP address parmanently on a box having > IDT C32H434 CPU ? Changing the ip address permanently does not depend on the cpu used, but more on the GNU/Linux distribution used. > There seems to be no /etc/init.d/network on this box. I could > do it with ifconfig but I need to make parmanent change as well > as effective right away. You should first tell me which GNU/Linux distribution you use and then I can give you a clue on where to change it permanently. Say for instance Debian uses /etc/network/interfaces . S.u.S.E has a thing called YaST if I remember correctly and Red Hat and the likes use a directory called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ But you tell me there does exist no /etc/init.d/network. So maybe you are running BusyBox or something and then you are completely on your own how to do things. Althought conforming to well known practice will not hurt you. :-) The best thing to do is check out /etc/inittab and learn how it works ($ man inittab). Then you will be able to find out how your GNU/Linux system boots and after some thorough searching you will find where the ip address is set. Then there is also the possibility that the ip address is set using the command to boot the kernel. Well, then you know where to permanently change it :-) As you can see, lot's of possibilities. Good luck! > The other question is when I change the IP address on the fly > with ifconfig, is there a way to make the inet listener apps > (that are running in the background) to autometically listen on > the new IP address? This depends completely on the application used. If the application listens on a specific ip address, then you should probably restart the application to make it listen to the new ip address. But than you would in between the restart also have to configure the application to listen on the new ip address. If you have the application listen to INADDR_ANY (0.0.0.0) then you don't have to do anything. Again, good luck! -- $ cat ~/.signature Freddy Spierenburg <freddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://freddy.snarl.nl/ GnuPG: 0x7941D1E1=C948 5851 26D2 FA5C 39F1 E588 6F17 FD5D 7941 D1E1 $ # Please read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt before complain!
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