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Network Configuration Using Red Hat linuxconf

by Tammy Fox
Last Modified: Wednesday, 19-May-2004 11:54:11 EDT

Introduction
    linuxconf is Red Hat's "all-in-one" configuration tool. It was written using the GTK libraries(the same as Gnome). In my personal use of linuxconf, I find it to be unreliable. For instance, even after saving and applying the changes, the changes do not show up when you view the configuration files from a terminal. If an error occurs while trying to make a change, linuxconf does not show you the error or tell you the changes were not made. Despite these problems, I have written a guide to configure your network card in linuxconf for those we like to use it. It usually works for this configuration issue assuming you choose the right network card module. If you choose the wrong one, it will not tell you -- it just won't load the module

Configuration
  1. Start linuxconf as root.
  2. Select Config-->Networking-->Client tasks->Basic host information from the left tree menu.
  3. Set the hostname in the host name tab that appears.
  4. Click on the Adaptor 1 tab and set the requested information as demonstrated in the example below making sure you choose the correct module for your card:

  5. Click the Accept button at the bottom of the right tabbed pane.
  6. Click the Quit button below the left tree menu.
  7. At the Status of the system tabbed pane choose Quit. This will save and activate the changes and close linuxconf.


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