re-ip admin interface

The BigIP admin interface is on a network with nodes I want to loadbalance via one of the gig attached ports.

 

 

So I am looking to re-ip the admin interface (below)

 

 

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:2F:4A:68

 

inet addr:18.88.88.80 Bcast:18.88.88.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

 

inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:81ff:fe2f:4a68/64 Scope:Link

 

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

 

RX packets:350617475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

 

TX packets:298660491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

 

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

 

RX bytes:785586255 (749.1 Mb) TX bytes:968007097 (923.1 Mb)

 

Interrupt:31 Base address:0xc400 Memory:fe9fd000-fe9fd038

 

 

I will re-ip eth0 to be 18.88.64.53 ? what is the best way?

 

 

Do I just update the files below (for persistency across reboots?)

 

Then

 

ifconfig eth0 18.88.64.53

 

 

To have it take immediate effect?

 

 

[root@irt-lb-03:Standby] config find /etc -type f -size -1000 -print | xargs egrep 18.88.88.80

 

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-admin:IPADDR=18.88.88.80

 

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-admin:SRCADDR=18.88.88.80

 

/etc/hosts:18.88.88.80 irt-lb-03.stanford.edu SAVE id - 18.88.88.80.irt-lb-03.stanford.edu

 

 

Thanks