[Server-devel] XS Help, please

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Mon May 18 04:12:11 EDT 2009


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Tim Moody <timmoody at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> If you have to use a static IP for eth0 then you might need to edit /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

There's a new trick in 0.5.x for that:

create /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-local with the
configuration you want and the server will use that instead of dhcp.
For various complicated reasons, ifcfg-eth0 gets overwritten on some
upgrades :-/

cheers,


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