there are three kinds of booting protocols that setparms can set up for you: static, dhcp, and bootp. choose the appropriate protocol based on the following descriptions:
1. static boot protocol
if you choose static booting, you will have to set several networking parameters. some of these are described below.
you will also need to provide an ip address for your workstation, a hostname, the ip address of the network gateway for your system, the netmask (255.255.248.0 for example), and a network domain name (for example, company_name.com).
press the "dns parameters" tab to set up your dns configuration. refer to the section "dns parameters configuration" in this chapter for an example of the screen interface and instructions.
after setting up dns, click on the "authorization parameters" tab and follow the instructions in the section "setting up network authorization parameters."
files that are modified with these network changes are:
/etc/resolv.conf,
/etc/sysconfig/network, and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
2. dhcp boot protocol
if you choose dhcp booting, your ip address, hostname, gateway, netmask, domain name, and dns server information are all set up for you at boot time. it should also set up your nis information. however, the current dhcp client-side implementation from red hat does not request this from the server, so you will have to set that up yourself if you use it. see the sections "setting up network authorization parameters" and "dns parameters configuration" in this chapter.
the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is modified when you select dhcp.
3. bootp boot protocol
bootp is a subset of dhcp and will not be fully described here. it gets your ip address, hostname, gateway and netmask, but does not set up your dns server information or nis authentication, so you will have to do that yourself.
the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is modified when you select bootp.
choose the boot protocol that is appropriate for your system. if you do not know which protocol to choose, ask your system administrator. the following instructions assume you are using the static protocol.
once you have completed setting the functionality for this tab, you can go to the next tab.
do not click on the "save" button until you have setup all workstation functionality as this will exit you from the linux setup tool.