config IP address - need help

[bpmedley at 4321.tv (bpmedley at 4321.tv)]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, NAI wrote:

> I have RedHat 7.1 installed. At the beginning, I used DHCP to config the
> ip address.
>
> For some reason, I need to re-config to use the static ip address. I use
> 'netcfg' to config the ip address. After finishing and re-boot the
> system, I used ifconfig to check the ip address. However, I didn't show.
> What & where I need to config ?  Thanks in advance

What do these two files have in them:

    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
            and
    /etc/sysconfig/network

What happens when you manually type:

    # ifup eth0
    # ifconfig

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