ZyXEL p-2302hw-p1 Manual Do Utilizador

P-2302HW/HWL-P1 Series User’s Guide

Appendix B Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address

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6 Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays. Click Yes 

to save the changes in all screens.

Figure 180   Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: Activate 

7 After the network card restart process is complete, make sure the Status is Active in the 

Network Configuration screen.

Follow the steps below to edit the network configuration files and set your computer IP 
address. 

1 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 

 in the 

BOOTPROTO=

 

field. The following figure shows an example. 

Figure 181   Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0 

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If you have a static IP address, enter 

 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. 

DEVICE=eth0

ONBOOT=yes

USERCTL=no

PEERDNS=yes

TYPE=Ethernet