use the GUI if you are having trouble (netconf?)
Or you have to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
That is your configuration information for your actual device and in it you will see the dhcp stuff...
check out the how-tos on www.linuxdoc.org
HTH
-Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blake Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: Redhat List
> Subject: Networking help
>
>
> I'm trying to get my network running. My provider gave me an
> IP adress
> (I'll call it ip.ip), a hostname (host.name), and a gate way
> (this was
> only two numbers long, say 1.2).
>
> So, I changed a few files: /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network
> For example:
>
> $ cat hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> ip.ip host.name
>
>
> But, when I reboot (how do I restart networking?), DHCP kicks in and
> assigns my IP differently then the IP I was given.
>
> Do I need to turn off DHCP (if so how?).
> Is there anything else I'm missing?
>
> Thanks
> I'm running redhat 7.2
>
> Blake
>
>
>
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