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From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To: "Dana L. Turner" <dturner@peewee.ubt.com>
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Subject: Re: Maybe a dumb question, but...
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On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Dana L. Turner wrote:

> I need to change my net mask on my Ethernet adapter.
> 
> Will I need to recompile the system to do this, or is there a file that I
> can edit to get the job done?

No, there is no need to recompile, taka a look in /etc/sysconfig. And you 
might also wan't to do man ifconfig.