[ILUG] IP Number - where is it held?

[Ryan, Philip]

Hello 

Thanks for the prompt replies to this. Found what I needed...

RE "LINUX per se not having an ip...." - I'll try to remember the tip. It
was a bad choice of words on my behalf.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Allen [SMTP:john.allen at orbiscom.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:59 PM
> To:	Ryan, Philip
> Cc:	ilug at linux.ie; Crothers, John
> Subject:	Re: [ILUG] IP Number - where is it held?
> 
> "Ryan, Philip" wrote:
> 
> > Hello Folks
> >
> > We're looking for where LINUX stores it's IP address.
> >
> 
> Try /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> 
> Where the 0 is the number of the ethernet card you want the ip for.
> 
> Also try /sbin/ifconfig eth0 to get the config for a card without
> having to know what file contains the config.
> 
> >
> > Our initial thinking was that /etc/sysconfig/network is sourced at boot
> time
> > by /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet which uses the value of $HOSTNAME to do a
> lookup in
> > /etc/hosts to establish the IP address.
> >
> > This has proven to be false.
> >
> > >From further investigation I'm concluding that LINUX is similar to AIX
> in
> > that via SMIT on AIX, one adds or changes the IP address and this change
> is
> > reflected in /etc/hosts & written to the ODM. Whereas on LINUX, one
> updates
> > the IP address via linuxconf and this change is written to some binary
> > somewhere but not reflected in /etc/hosts (feature in
> linuxconf-1.16r10-2
> > ?????).
> >
> > Any pointers on which file linuxconf writes to?
> >
> > Rgs
> >
> > Phil
> >
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