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By Randy Clark on Apr. 13, 2009

So I assume you mean you want the box to have a static IP address?

On FC, you can access the GUI tool called Network Device Control. Over there, you can 'Configure' your Ethernet port and get it to use a Static IP. Make sure nothing else has access to that IP so you get no network conflicts.

By Richard Carmody on Apr. 13, 2009

Thanks Randy. How do I do this using the CLI? I would like to set the static IP from the command line.

By George Murphy on Apr. 30, 2009

Hi Richard, you have to do a few things to set up a static IP address in Fedora:

1) edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (assuming you are using eth0 - you can check using ifconfig)

2) There, set the BOOTPROTO to static. It should look something like:

DEVICE=eth0

BOOTPROTO=static

BROADCAST=xxx.xxx.xxx.255 (replace xxx with your Gateway subnet)

IPADDR=your_static_ip

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

ONBOOT=yes (this makes sure this is set up at boot time)

TYPE=Ethernet

Once you do this, you can restart the network from the CLI by typing:

service network restart

After this, you should be set up with your static IP.