I've been using dhcp to configure my network connection for my Redhat 7.1 computer. It's been working great but now I have to assign a live ip address to use my mail server. I've tried ifconfig and linuxconf with no success. But, I might be using it wrong. I'm almost positive there isn't an IP confict so I don't know what to do from here. If anyone could please help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Not sure I quite understand the question. Could you describe your network in more detail? If you have to move from DHCP to static addresses as a whole, you *should* be able to do the follwing (as root): In linuxconf: Choose Host name and IP network devices --> Adaptor 1. - Config Mode= Manual - primary name and domain= the name returned to you when you type "hostname" at a command prompt. - IP Address= the static IP assiged by your ISP - Netmask= netmask assigned by ISP - Net Device= eth0 - Kernel Module= your NIC's module name Under Name server specifications: - default domain= domain name provided by your ISP - IP name of server 1 (and optionally, 2)= DNS IPs provided by ISP Under Routing and gateways - this will depend on what kind of network you are on, and if you use a gateway/firewall. If you're just connecting to a cable or DSL modem, the gateway will be the IP of that device. If you're behind a hardware firewall/router, the gateway IP will be that of the router. To do things manually, you'll have to: - assign the static IP to eth0 using "ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up", where xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is the static IP assigned to you. - add the default gateway using "route add default gw yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy, where yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the address of the gateway machine/device. - add your DNS IPs to /etc/resolv.conf, in the form of: domain=Domain_Name_Provided_By_ISP nameserver=Primary_DNS_Server's_IP nameserver=Secondary_DNS_Server's_IP I'm doing the manual part from memory, so I might have missed somthing, but that's the basic idea. I'm sure someone else here can fill in any pieces I missed.

I'm not for sure I can describe my network in greater detail. I'm a technician and share a building with an ISP. I'm trying to move further toward the networking end of things. I sure your wandering why I just don't ask my ISP how things are set up etc. etc. The answer more or less is that I'm trying to set it up myself so I can learn. I know we're behind a router and think that we have a dhcp server set up??? Excuse my ignorence. But thanks for the information I'm sure it will help considerably - I'm the only one at the shop that knows anything about linux so I can't ask them.