New IP address

[Tony500]

Hi everyone,
I have an HP9000 D Class running 10.2 that is being moved to a new building within our wan and I have to change the IP address. Could anyone tell me what the Network interface configuration tool for doing this is?
Thanks,
Tony

[harry d brown jr]

vi
&
shutdown -r -y 0

live free or die
harry

[Tony500]

vi which files?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

To change the IP address,

edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and /etc/hosts replace the old IP with new IP.

Shutdown the system. Move it and bring it backup. It should come up with new IP.

Make sure you update your DNS if you are using DNS.

-Sri

[John Poff]

Hi,

You can use 'sam' to change the IP address but it usually messes up your config files by putting in extra entries, which is why Harry refers to using vi. You'll just need to vi the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file and also fix your /etc/hosts file.

JP

[Pete Randall]

Tony,

Harry (and others) will scream about this, but I've always had favorable results with /sbin/set_parms ip_address.

Try it, you'll like it.

Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Tony,

Just run below command from command line.

# set_parms ip_address

Robert-Jan.

[Ken Hubnik_2]

User set_parms and pick which pieces you need to change.

[harry d brown jr]

Pete,

You got that right :-)

Maybe it's just the bad luck I've had with using it, especially when changing a machines, IP Address & Gateway & subnet-mask. Had I used vi I would have been done within 2 minutes!

live free or die
harry

[Scott_14]

Hey Tony:

If you vi the netconf file like someone had said, you can at least see where the ip comes from and just change it there, and you may want to see if you need to change your gw address as well.

scott

[Jeff Schussele]

IF you vi - don't forget your /etc/hosts file.

Also don't forget to consider any licenses that are IP-bound.

And if you use DNS, have that changed as well no matter how you change the system's IP.

Rgds,
Jeff