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Click the Activate button to apply the changes. The following screen displays.
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Click Yes to save the changes in all screens.
Figure 176 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Network Configuration: Activate
After the network card restart process is complete, make sure the Status is
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Active in the Network Configuration screen.
Using Configuration Files
Follow the steps below to edit the network configuration files and set your
computer IP address.
Assuming that you have only one network card on the computer, locate the
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ifconfig-eth0 configuration file (where eth0 is the name of the Ethernet card).
Open the configuration file with any plain text editor.
• If you have a dynamic IP address, enter dhcp in the BOOTPROTO= field. The
following figure shows an example.
Figure 177 Red Hat 9.0: Dynamic IP Address Setting in ifconfig-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
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Appendix B Setting up Your Computer's IP Address
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