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Where is the config file to set fixed IP in Fedora 11

Asked by: hke72

Where is the config file to set fixed IP in Fedora 11?

I have some machienes in a class which I want to be able to clone. Therefore I "restore" from a partition that is not cloned the files:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 and /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

This meens I can manipulate the ifcfg-files to a fixed IP.

This workes fine, but...I have 2 wireless routers (one normal and one 3G) and when I connected to the second one (3G) I used the GUI (click on the network-connections-icon in the top right corner/Connect to hidden SSID/Connected

Now I get connected! I then edited this connection using the GUI and set a fixed IP. This also works fine :) So what is my f... problem :)

I want to restore the config-file for this connection from the partition that is not cloned. But where is it? I have used grep to find the SSID and the IP without any luck. Basically I wonder where are the files that make up the GUI-connections??

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Answers

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-11-03 at 21:21:30ID: 25736630

those files are updated and hence the mod time of these files changes.

So, before you run the gui run the below command

touch /tmp/myfile

then run the gui, do some changes, save them, then run

find / -newer /tmp/myfile

this will give you list of files changed after /tmp/myfile

 

by: hke72Posted on 2009-11-04 at 02:38:34ID: 25737983

It was a lot of files. Mostly /proc/ and /tmp/ and /var/log - none of which gave me any idea!

 

by: dzamfirPosted on 2009-11-04 at 05:22:37ID: 25738993

Try to have a look into /etc/sysconfig/networking/ directory.

 

by: hke72Posted on 2009-11-04 at 05:28:32ID: 25739028

I find ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-wlan0 - both with the fixed-ip's I have set, but for the other router. When rebooting I do not get the IP I want.

I tried to add a new script ifcfg-wlan1 both in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. But it made no difference.

 

by: dzamfirPosted on 2009-11-04 at 05:49:35ID: 25739237

Are you talking about /etc/sysconfig/networking/ ?

 

by: hke72Posted on 2009-11-09 at 03:51:46ID: 25775023


Found solution I do not think it is very pretty, but it seems to work now:

As I said I have 2 NIC's (it is a laptop ) and 3 different routers.
1 is normal (address 192.168.10.1)
1 is a Linksys wifi (address 192.168.11.11 and MyName as SSID)
1 is a d-link wifi 3G-router (address 192.168.11.11 and MyName as SSID)
What I ended up doing:
I disabled NetworkManager
I turned off (for network-devices) both controlled by NetworkManager and start automatically on boot.
In /etc/rc.local I run a script that remove all ifcfg-files and keys-wlan0 (/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/* and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-wlan0)
The script then restores from my boot area (which is not cloned) the ifcfg-files and /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net
Then I do a service network restart and finally; ifup wlan0 and ifup eth0 (important that wlan0 comes first for some reason)

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