Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

[Mike Wright]

10/06/2014 10:37 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 06:47:16 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The ethernet port has a ifcfg script with
>>>      HWADDR="E8:40:F2:05:DE:1C"
>>>      BOOTPROTO=none
>>>      IPADDR="198.168.20.5"
>>> but is otherwise as created by Anaconda.
>>>
>>
>> Don't you need "BOOTPROTO=static"?
>>
> Apparently "static" is not a defined value for BOOTPRO, and when an undefined term is used, it defaults to "none". One of the little bits of highly useful information that I've discovered in my search for a connection :-)

There are only two defined values for BOOTPROTO: bootp and dhcp.  Any 
other value will result in a static assignment.