Very Computer

I'm an Oracle DBA and not familiar with advanced System Administration. For
my AIX database server I have to change the IP address. The server is not in
a NIS or DNS network. I hope I do not have to change a number of files like
/etc/hosts and stuff like that. I'll probably forget some files.Can anybody
tell me how to change the IP address of the AIX server. Please reply in this
group or send an e-mail to

Thanks a lot.

Wim

If you'd prefer to do it from the command line, then "chdev -l en0 -a
netaddr=new.addr.here" should do the trick.  Then you'll need to
modify /etc/hosts as well.

You can also do it the old way via ifconfig, if you like, though that
way isn't 'sticky' unless you know your way around rc scripts.

Note, of course, that there's no such thing as an IP address for the
system itself.  Each interface has an IP address.  That's what you're
setting here.

Note also that after renumbering, your /etc/hosts file may be
inaccurate for other hosts, unless perhaps you're renumbering from one
subnet to another within a single organization.

If you're not using at least rdist to distribute /etc/hosts or using
DNS, you probably should find someone to set these up for you.  They
make life a good bit simpler.  (I'm not a fan of NIS, though others
are.  It's less kludgy than rdist but much, much more draconian.)

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