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I have 30 linux servers that I need to change subnetmask. I want to use a simple script or a simple command to change the subnemt mask from 255.255.255.128 to 255.255.255.0 in ifcfg-eth0.

can someone please help? Thanks, Elad.

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A simple sed command like this will do it:

$ sudo sed -i 's/NETMASK=255.255.255.0/NETMASK=255.255.255.128/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

You can combine this sed command with SSH command to execute this on each server using the a command like:

$ ssh user@server command
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A simple for loop + SSH key-based authentication should make it automatic to change files on all machine, but you need to do another command to restart the network service for the changes to take effect. – Khaled Feb 16 '12 at 8:11

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