How do I go from DHCP to static IP?

Gav · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 65 Location: Surrey, UK

I've tried a few things I found through searching, but it always reverts back to DHCP at reboot...

The story is that I setup my new gentoo 'personal server', alongside my old RH one which had a static IP (192.168.1.2), and used DHCP as it was easier for install. I now want to assign it to the static IP. The gateway and DHCP server (NAT router) is 192.168.1.1.

I can get the IP changed to 192.168.1.2, but it reverts on a reboot, so what files do I need to edit???

r101 · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

I think the file you want is /etc/conf.d/net.

Just change the iface_eth0 and gatway setting.

Gav · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 65 Location: Surrey, UK

Thanks, that worked!

Tomorrow I have some other problems to sort out (maildirs, kde)