Re: How to change network address ?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 14:55 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 03/31/2012 01:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 03/31/2012 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > >     There used to be a menu that I used for this but with F16/XFCE I
> > >     am lost.
> > >
> > >     Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to do this?
> >
> > From the main menu, go to Applications, Administration.  I have both 
> > Network and Network Device Control.  If one doesn't help, try the other.
>     I have neither of those although I think Network Device Control
>     is what I used in the past?
>
>     Man ifconfig says:  NOTE    This program is obsolete!  For
>     replacement check ip addr and ip link.  For statistics use ip -s
>     link.
>
>     I did that:  ip addr 192.168.2.0/24 dev em1
>
>     I also tried:
>
>     route add -net 192.168.2.0/24 em1
>
>     Which leaves me wondering how to verify the change has been added and then how do I access the unknown device. it is supposed to default to an address in the 192.168.2 subnet which I can access from Firefox however I haven't been able to find it with a few trial and error attempts. There must be a logical approach to this?
>
>     This is a minimum quality IP Camera [Zonet zvc7611w] that I use to watch the front driveway. I pressed the reset button and then can find the cdrom with the support information and have found nothing on-line and got no response from Zonet. Not surprisingly it is a discontinued product. It would overheat and fail until I added vent holes and a tiny fan to both of them, I have two.
>
>     Bob

To make ifconfig obsolete is really weird. It sounds to me that
developers of Fedora have to much time on their hands. Next I expect
they will change the name of vi. Oh, I forgot it is now vim. Where is Ed
Joy when we need him? [He was the creator of vi, in the very beginning.]