Gateway/Routing
LC
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Mon May 28 03:31:34 UTC 2007
>> I had been using dynamic 512kbps ADSL internet access with FC acting as a
>> gateway and router in the office for sometime now. As traffic had
>> increased
>> over the pass years, the management decided to sign up with a static
>> 2mbps
>> ADSL connection.
>>
>> On this FC router, eth0 is set to DHCP and eth1 is configured with an IP
>> 192.168.1.1
>>
>> Can I use back the existing configuration?
>Well, the only thing you'll need to do is once that you've received your
>static IP address assignment, reconfigure eth0 with the static IP address,
>instead of DHCP. You can do this either by running system-config-network,
>or by hand-editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Change
>"BOOTPROTO=dhcp" to "BOOTPROTO=none", and add "IPADDR=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd",
>"NETMASK=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" and "GATEWAY=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd". Then, ifdown
>eth0,
>followed by ifup eth0, to reconfigure the port.
Thanks. I also have a samba machine. I would like external users to access
it via another issued static IP. Do i bind the static IP into its NIC via
eth0:1 ?
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