How to add static IP via cmd line?

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Dec 22 17:15:23 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 20:38 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> How do you force a static IP, DNS, netmask and Gateway via the cmd line?
> 

Static IP


/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 aa.bb.cc.dd up

aa.bb.cc.dd is you ip addresss

If you run a custom mask you need to set that also


DNS  servers are set in /etc/resolv.conf




Gateway

route add default gw aa.bb.cc.dd

HTH

Vram







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