config IP address - need help

[numberwhun at hotmail.com (Numberwhun *****)]

I second Jerry on that.  I have taken my laptop off of my home network, 
plugged it into a friends network, changed the IP and continued what I was 
doing.

#jlk

>From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>To: discuss at Blu.Org
>Subject: Re: config IP address - need help
>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:42:06 -0400
>
>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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