How to configure a static ip in Linux

This is a newbie question I get quite often.
Configuring your Linux machine to run on a static IP is easy. Tools like system-config-network and netconfig provide you simple GUIs to do this.
For today, I’ll show you how to do this from the command line instead.
Navigate to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

[root@baboo]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
Every network interface will have it’s own interface script file. eth0,eth1,eth2 and so on. Vi the ifcfg-eth0 interface script file for interface eth0. Replace the contents of the ifcfg-eth0 file with the parameters below.
[root@baboo]# vi ifcfg-eth0.

DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.100
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
HWADDR=00:0F:22:71:0A:53
USERCTL=no
USERCTL=no
If you want to switch back to DHCP, repeat the steps above and replace the contents of the ifcfg-eth0 file with the parameters below.
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:0F:20:71:0A:50
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DHCP_HOSTNAME=klmdrpdr01p.klm1.netcel360.com
Restart your interface to apply the changes.

[root@baboo]#ifdown eth0
[root@baboo]#ifup eth0
To update your dns server settings, modify the /etc/resolv.conf.
[root@baboo]# vi /etc/resolv.conf
Replace the contents of the resolv.conf file with the parameters below. The first parameter “search” is your search path followed the nameserver parameters which hold the IPs for your primary and secondary DNS servers.

search example.com
nameserver 192.168.0.5
nameserver 192.168.0.6