How to give a temporary ip address in your system

For temporary network configuration you have to use 'ifconfig' command. This command configures the setting immediately and will b lost after a reboot.

$ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

Here we are configuring to eth0. After this command to check the present network interface you have to type the command

$ ifconfig eth0

Then will give the details of the eth0 ( example is show figure below)