User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VMG8924-B10A and VMG8924- B30A Series
- User’s Guide
- Technical Reference
- Network Map and Status Screens
- Broadband
- Wireless
- Home Networking
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 The LAN Setup Screen
- 7.3 The Static DHCP Screen
- 7.4 The UPnP Screen
- 7.5 Installing UPnP in Windows Example
- 7.6 Using UPnP in Windows XP Example
- 7.7 The Additional Subnet Screen
- 7.8 The STB Vendor ID Screen
- 7.9 The 5th Ethernet Port Screen
- 7.10 The LAN VLAN Screen
- 7.11 The Wake on LAN Screen
- 7.12 Technical Reference
- Routing
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Dynamic DNS Setup
- Interface Group
- USB Service
- Power Management
- Firewall
- MAC Filter
- Parental Control
- Scheduler Rule
- Certificates
- VPN
- Voice
- Log
- Traffic Status
- VoIP Status
- ARP Table
- Routing Table
- IGMP/MLD Status
- xDSL Statistics
- 3G Statistics
- User Account
- Remote Management
- TR-069 Client
- TR-064
- SNMP
- Time Settings
- E-mail Notification
- Logs Setting
- Firmware Upgrade
- Configuration
- Diagnostic
- Troubleshooting
- Customer Support
- Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address
- IP Addresses and Subnetting
- Pop-up Windows, JavaScripts and Java Permissions
- Wireless LANs
- IPv6
- Services
- Legal Information
- Index

Appendix B Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address
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2 If you know your DNS server IP address(es), enter the DNS server information in the resolv.conf
file in the /etc directory. The following figure shows an example where two DNS server IP
addresses are specified.
Figure 223 Red Hat 9.0: DNS Settings in resolv.conf
3 After you edit and save the configuration files, you must restart the network card. Enter ./network
restart in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. The following figure shows an example.
Figure 224 Red Hat 9.0: Restart Ethernet Card
Verifying Settings
Enter ifconfig in a terminal screen to check your TCP/IP properties.
Figure 225 Red Hat 9.0: Checking TCP/IP Properties
nameserver 172.23.5.1
nameserver 172.23.5.2
[root@localhost init.d]# network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: [OK]
Shutting down loopback interface: [OK]
Setting network parameters: [OK]
Bringing up loopback interface: [OK]
Bringing up interface eth0: [OK]
[root@localhost]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:72:5B:44
inet addr:172.23.19.129 Bcast:172.23.19.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:717 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:730412 (713.2 Kb) TX bytes:1570 (1.5 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1000
[root@localhost]#