config IP address - need help

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

That's actually not the case that I've observed. I have changed my settings 
several times on my laptop, both at MIT switching from a dynamic IP address 
(home and work) to a static IP address without the need for a reboot or a 
restart of X. The other day I took my laptop off the public net at Compaq, 
put in a static IP address, transferred a file, then reconnected it to the 
public net.
John Abreau wrote:
> Once you've changed your network settings, you can run
> 
>     sudo /etc/init.d/network restart
> 
> to make them take effect. One caveat: DHCP tends to change the machine's
> hostname, and X's permissions are based on the hostname, so if you change
> it within X, you may find you no longer have permission to create or 
> destroy
> windows. You'll then have to kill X with a ctrl-alt-backspace and re-login.
> 
> When I need to do something similar, I always logout of X first, and reset 
> the network from a text console.
> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at Blu.Org> writes:
> 
> > I'm not a Red Hat expert, but on Linux you don't need to reboot when you 
> > make changes like that.
> >
> > "NAI" wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 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 & whe
> re
> > > I need to config ?
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > 
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