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 Appendix A Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address
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Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays. Click Yes to save 
the changes in all screens.
Figure 175   
Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: Activate  
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After the network card restart process is complete, make sure the Status is Active in the Network 
Configuration
 screen.
Using Configuration Files
Follow the steps below to edit the network configuration files and set your computer IP address. 
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Assuming that you have only one network card on the computer, locate the ifconfig-eth0 
configuration file (where eth0 is the name of the Ethernet card). Open the configuration file with 
any plain text editor.
• If you have a dynamic IP address, enter 
dhcp
 in the BOOTPROTO= field.  The following figure 
shows an example. 
Figure 176   
Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0  
• If you have a static IP address, enter 
static
 in the BOOTPROTO= field. Type IPADDR= followed 
by the IP address (in dotted decimal notation) and type NETMASK= followed by the subnet 
mask. The following example shows an example where the static IP address is 192.168.1.10 
and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. 
Figure 177   
Red Hat 9.0: Static IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0   
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet