Re: Help configuring internal network

[Samuel Sieb]

On 3/24/22 20:34, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > On 2022-03-20 8:00 a.m., Tim >R. G. 
> > Newbury wrote:
> > > > edit your /etc/hosts file to give the hdhomerun unit a fixed IP
> > > > address.
> > >
> > > When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address?
> >
> > You are correct, and I am completely wrong. A static address for the 
> > computer would be set by editing 
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1 (or whatever) or using the 
> > network config gui to do the same thing.
>
> Huh?
>
> From man hosts:

That's not *giving* anything an IP address.  It's assigning a name for 
the local host to be able to *lookup* an IP address.