If you are using CML-2 P for your labs and testing, you will very likely want to test reachability between hosts, perhaps run traceroutes, as you would in a real life troubleshooting scenario.
In this post, you will learn how to set up Alpine desktop ethernet ports and assign it an IP address.

  • CML-2 P Alpine desktop

Once your nodes have booted, desktops are accessed via console, in exactly the same way you access your network nodes.

Credentials are, cisco/cisco which will you give access to root folder. From there drill down to cd /etc/network/ and view interfaces file or directly edit the file with sudo vi interfaces.

In my example I wanted to set host e0 to 172.16.1.2/24 and the gateway to be 172.16.1.1.

  • CML-P alpine desktop password

Validate you have edited the interfaces file by viewing the file once more, then restart the network services using sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart as per the image below.

  • CML-P alpine ethernet settings