setting IP address manually

[Gaspar Bakos]

Hi,

I have a remote power switch device which comes with factory default IP
setting 192.168.1.250. It is not intelligent; it hsa no DHCP, for
example. I have a crossover cable, and I have two ethernet cards in the
PC: eth0 and eth1.

My question is: is there a way of assigning 192.168.1.250 to my eth0 or
eth1 under Redhat linux?

I have been trying to play with
ifconfig, ifup, ifdown, etc.
but I get the complaint "192.168.1.250" is already in use.

Cheers
Gaspar