Network tweaks

Many times client computer doesn't get IP address even if its protocol is DHCP. If we manually give IP address to it, everything works perfectly fine. Thus the command to give manual IP is as follow


ifconfig eth0 'new_ip' netmask 255.255.255.0 up


Do not forget to fill in the IP adress you want.

Also if the default routes are screwed up, fix it like this

cat >> /etc/sysconfig/network << END
GATEWAY='Gateway_IP'
END