> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gaspar Bakos > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 7:36 PM > To: fedora-list > Subject: setting IP address manually > > Hi, > > I have a remote power switch device which comes with factory > default IP setting 192.168.1.250. It is not intelligent; it > hsa no DHCP, for example. I have a crossover cable, and I > have two ethernet cards in the > PC: eth0 and eth1. > > My question is: is there a way of assigning 192.168.1.250 to > my eth0 or > eth1 under Redhat linux? > > I have been trying to play with > ifconfig, ifup, ifdown, etc. > but I get the complaint "192.168.1.250" is already in use. > > Cheers > Gaspar > edit: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 then do a service network restart if that doesn't work you can assign IP addresses with the ifconfig command: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.250 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Though I believe the issue you may be having is that you're trying to assign the same IP address to both interfaces. They should have a different IP address (and ideally be on a different network) for example, eth0: 192.168.1.250, eth1: 192.168.2.250. -Mike
