How to change server main or primary IP address?

by Stephen on August 28, 2008

To change the main or primary server IP in CentOS => as root => edit the IP information in the following files and reboot server:

/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/hosts

If you have any question, please drop me a note and I will help.

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Alaa Hasan January 12, 2010 at 9:12 am: Dear Sir
i have network in my internet cafe some games does’t work because somebody banned from server in the game
how can i change the maip ip address i tried to change ip address from pc and i did it bur the problem doesn’t solve please help meeeeeee
i have one server and 10 pcs
it’s lan with router and switch
pleaseeeeeeeeeeee

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Stephen January 12, 2010 at 9:49 am: Hi Alaa,

If you changed the server IP but that didn’t help them maybe the problem is something else, maybe not IP related…

Or maybe your router IP got blocked as well.

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