configure network setting from command line

[Reggie Chang]

Hi there,

We got an old HP workstation running 10.20.
Now I can only login from command line after
the machine got powered off for quite some
time.

After login, I cannot ping other machines.
Nor can I ping the HP from other machines.
What should I re-configure the HP? We got
a DHCP router (192.168.1.1) and I plan to
assign 192.168.1.226 as the HP's IP.

Any advise is very much appreciated.

Thanks.

Reggie

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Reggie,

If the ip address has changed, the easiest way to change it on the host is to run the set_parms script.

# set_parms initial

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

Just edit /etc/rc.config/netconf and set values for IP, NETMASK, GATEWAY on desired interface.

Another option is to set it up via "sam".


regards,
ivan

[Reggie Chang]

Thanks for the responses.

I've modified /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
to make the machine network accessible.

I cannot use SAM. The machine actually
has a bigger problem to display graphics.

Before changing /etc/rc.config.d/netconf,
the machine showed CDE login prompt but
displayed same login screen after attemping
login. That's why I switched to command
line prompt. (I cannot run SAM suggested
by Robert-Jan.) However, after revising
netconf, the machine keeps trying to do
something with screen showing X after reboot.

Any suggestion to resolve the problem?
Perhaps I should post to another category.

Thanks again.

Reggie

[Nagashankarp]

Hi Reggie,
is the server able to ping after chaning the netconf, check netstat -rn to see if the default gateway is set for the system to get to other system, typically CDE has an issue if it cannot mount the home directory.

[Gilles Allard]

To solve your CDE session problem, try first to use the "failsafe session" (under Options/Session of the login page).
If it works, then check for DNS configuration and/or hosts file. If you recently changed your IP address, your /etc/hosts file is probably not up-to-date.