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In Fedora - 10 configuring IP address should be done in configuration file. It cannot be done from GUI or using netconfig command

All the declaration should be done in the following files

# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

enter the file and then type the ip address details

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.0.56
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
BOOTPROTO=NONE
HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
DNS1=192.168.0.10
DNS2=192.168.0.11

save the file and exit.

# service network restart
# ifconfig