[Techtalk] setting dhcp after installing/old hub

[Patricia Gaughen]

  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > I'm running RH 7.2 and need to set up eth0 to use DHCP.  It didn't get
  > done at installation probably because the Ethernet card wasn't detected
  > properly (and I had to install the correct driver afterwards).  How do I
  > do it now?  All the HOW-TOs seem to be out of date.

There are probably prettier gui's out there for setting up the network on 
redhat, but I use netconfig (/usr/sbin/netconfig, part of package 
netconfig-0.8.11-7).

Steps:
1) start netconfig
2) Answer the questions (select the "Use dynamic IP configuration 
(BOOTP/DHCP)" option)
3) Restart networking (`service network restart`)

Hope this helps,
Pat


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