The Air Guitar Company has just purchased a server with Linux Red Hat installed. The company has asked you to configure the server with an IP address and subnet mask. | Lab Configuring Network Settings Objective Configure a Red Hat Linux computer s IP address. Equipment The following equipment is required for this exercise Computer server with Linux Red Hat installed Network connection from the server to hub switch or some other host. Scenario The Air Guitar Company has just purchased a server with Linux Red Hat installed. The company has asked you to configure the server with an IP address and subnet mask. Procedures Before beginning this lab make sure the Red Hat Linux system is ready for you to log in. Ask your instructor or a lab technician for the appropriate static IP address information for your server. Record that information in the table provided Server IP Address Configuration IP address Subnet mask Default gateway Important Note The IP address Subnet Mask and Default Gateway that are being used in this lab are only examples. Ask your instructor for the IP scheme used in your lab and write them down in the table above. Refer to this table and not to the examples below for the correct IP addresses. Step 1 Login as root In this lab we will change the network IP address. In the Linux system only the root account can configure an IP address. 1. Log in as the root user. 1 - 9 IT Essentials II - Lab Copyright 2002 Cisco Systems Inc. If you are in the GUI open a terminal window click on the terminal emulator icon on the bottom of the screen to open the terminal window . You will configure the IP address and subnet mask using the CLI. Step 2 ifconfig IP addresses are assigned to physical interfaces such as Ethernet Network Interface Cards NICs . IP addresses can also be assigned to logical interfaces such as a Local Loopback. An interface typically has only one IP address assigned to it although it is possible to assign more than one IP address to an interface. Configure an interface s IP address using the ifconfig program. The if in ifconfig stands for interface . Use the man command to get .
