You can put: ifconfig eth0 <ip> netmask <netmask>
into /etc/init.d/network . You will probably also have to add your "route" line in there as well. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked > fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an > > ifconfig eth0 > > command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the > appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some > setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it > automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not > associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this > as well? > > Paul M. Foster