Group: comp.os.linux.networking
From: Markus Mayer
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: permanent ifconfig settings

Nicolas BOUTHORS schrieb:
> Markus Mayer a écrit :
>> Just a short question: How do I make ifconfig settings permanent? I
>> disabled the multicast of some of my interfaces but after a restart of
>> the network everything seems like it was before.
>>
>> I'm new to linux and don't understand it's mechanisms yet. (Oh, right,
>> I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 if that matters)
>
> Use the /etc/network/interfaces file. There is a manpage associated (man
> 5 interfaces).
>
> You could add a line in the paragraph for your interface looking like
> this :
> post-up ifconfig eth0 -allmulti
>
> Adapt with the command you used.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>
>

Thanks!

Markus

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