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Chapter 3:Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
3.16 Network Configuration
If you do not have a network device, you will not see this screen. Skip ahead to Section 3.17, Firewall
Configuration.
If you have a network device and you have not already configured your networking (such as booting
from a network boot disk you created and entering in your network information as prompted), you
now have the opportunity (as shown in Figure 3–11, Network Configuration) to do so.
If you have multiple devices, you will see a tab for each device. You may switch between devices (for
example, between eth0 and eth1) and the information you provide on each tab will be specific to each
device.
Indicate if you would like to configure your IP address using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol). If you select
, your network interface will be started when you boot. If
Activate on boot
you do not have DHCP client access or you are unsure what to provide here, please contact your
network administrator.
Next enter, where applicable, the
,
,
, and
addresses. If you
IP Address
Netmask
Network
Broadcast
are unsure about any of these, please contact your network administrator.
If you have a fully qualified domain name for the network device, enter it in the
field.
Hostname
Finally, enter the
and
(and if applicable the
and
Gateway
Primary DNS
Secondary DNS
Ternary
) addresses.
DNS
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