network config

Set host name

$ sudo   hostname    server1.example.com

Set resolv.conf

Next we edit /etc/hosts.
Make it look like this:

$ sudo   vim   /etc/hosts

nameserver 116.228.111.118
nameserver 180.168.255.18

Adjust /etc/hosts

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
192.168.0.166 server1 server1.example.com

 

 

It is important that you add a line for server1.example.com
and remove server1.example.com and server1 from the 127.0.0.1 line.

Configure Additional IP Addresses

(This section is totally optional. It just shows how to add additional
IP addresses to your network interface eth0 if you need more than one IP
address. If you're fine with one IP address, you can skip this section.)

 

 

Let's assume our network interface is eth0.
Then there is a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
which looks like this:

 

$ sudo   vim   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

 

# Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
HWADDR=00:1E:37:D4:95:4D
IPADDR=192.168.0.166
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
ONBOOT=yes

 

 

Now we want to create the virtual interface eth0:0 with the IP address 192.168.0.167.
All we have to do is to create the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
which looks like this:
(we can leave out the HWADDR line as it is the same physical network card)

 

$ sudo vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 DEVICE=eth0:0

 

BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPADDR=192.168.0.167
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0

 

 

Afterwards we have to restart the network:
(you must stop NetworkManager first, before restart network
$ sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
$ sudo chkconfig NetwrokManager off
$ sudo chkconfig network on
)

 

 

$ /etc/init.d/network restart

 

You might also want to adjust /etc/hosts
after you have added new IP addresses, although this is not necessary.

 

Now run

$ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:37:D4:95:4D 
          inet addr:192.168.0.166  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:37ff:fed4:954d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:30293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32596 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:17311404 (16.5 MiB)  TX bytes:10236595 (9.7 MiB)
          Memory:fe000000-fe020000

eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:37:D4:95:4D 
          inet addr:192.168.0.167  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Memory:fe000000-fe020000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2540 (2.4 KiB)  TX bytes:2540 (2.4 KiB)