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I installed Redhat 6 x86_64. I am using the Network connection screen to set a static IP address like below (I want two PC's in my house to see each other: one Redhat PC and one Mac)

192.168.0.5  
255.255.255.0  
192.168.0.1

When I run ifconfig it displays only lo and virbr0 information. I don't know what these items are (I don't really know much about network settings).

When I try ifconfig -a it displays eth0, lo, sit0 and virbr0. The information for eth0 is as follows:

Link encap : Ethernet HWaddr 90:2B:34:74:05:30
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes 53811 (52.5 KiB) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0xc000

Could someone help me to point out if anything wrong with my setting or how to resolve this problem?

2 Answers 2

Reset to default
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You can provide static IP by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 as root user in Redhat.

It should look like this:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=STATIC
IPADDR=192.168.0.5
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
ONBOOT=yes

After saving this file. You need to restart the network daemon using following command.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/network stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/network start

This should provide IP address to eth0 interface also. And ifconfig command should list eth0 also.

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  • thanks for your quick answer. i did the same thing before but cannot solve. i ran ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0. and it solved my problem. i don't know what's wrong. With this setting, when i restarted by using /etc/init.d/network stop/start, then ifconfig --> again it hide the [eth0]
    – Phu Nguyen
    Oct 21, 2012 at 13:43
  • Can you try booting the computer once. After that ifconfig command should show everytime eth0. You can try using sudo ifup eth0 if you don't want to reboot.
    – pradeepchhetri
    Oct 21, 2012 at 14:00
  • restart help solving my problem. thank you very much
    – Phu Nguyen
    Oct 21, 2012 at 14:02
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    You probably want to make sure that the network service starts on boot, so you'll want to run /sbin/chkconfig network on as root.
    – jsbillings
    Apr 23, 2013 at 23:34
  • According to RHEL 6 documentation, there is no such value as BOOTPROTO=STATIC. access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/…
    – ChaimKut
    Jan 7, 2015 at 15:19
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After you configure the ip address run the following commands

service NetworkManager stop
chkconfig NetworkManager off

It will retain the provided ip even after booting.

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