[Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

[Doug Lytle]

>> I'm trying to set up a NAS server, and the built-in address is not on
>> the same subnet as my LAN, so I need to temporarily change the address
>> of this netbook so that I can run the configuration.

Easy enough to do from the command line, as root:

if your NAS is on 192.168.0.1, you can put your notebook at 192.168.0.100 with:

ifconfig eth0:temp 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

Now your netbook would have 2 ip addresses, one under eth0 and one under eth0:temp

To remove the eth0:temp would be:

ifconfig eth0:temp down

Doug


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