[TriLUG] modifying network settings on RedHat 9??

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:34, prhodes at vdsinc.com wrote:

> I would have thought this approach would work, but it turns out,
> it doesn't. After downing and bring the interface back up, it still
> has the old settings.  Even rebooting with the new files in place
> doesn't change it.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated... I thought
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
> was where those settings were stored...  was I wrong, or is there just
> something
> else I'm missing?


Hi Phil,

What you describe above is nearly identical to my method, except I:

  1) first eject the cardbus network adapter (either wired or wifi)

  2) *explicitly* kill dhclient ("sudo killall dhclient") since the 
     card ejection doesn't always seem to take care of it

  3) copy the config files as you described

  4) (re-)insert one of my cardbus network adapters


good luck,
Ed

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