[plug] Debian Networking Question

[Mark O'Shea]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, skribe wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I'm having some trouble with a debian 3.0r2 machine I'm setting up.  It's on
> a network of XPs with an XP server connected to the net via dial-up (yes, I
> know I have it around the wrong way -- the deb machine will be replacing the
> existing server once it's configured and secured).  The problem I'm having is
> that I can ping the network machines but I can't reach beyond the server to
> the big wide world.  I thought it was a routing problem but the routing looks
> right.  Then I noticed that the XP network is running off dhcp.  I was told
> by the XP tech it wasn't and that I should just set everything manually.  How
> do I reset the networking to dhcp after having manually set it during the
> install?  I'm new to debian and it's been a long time since I had to
> comfigure a network so be gentle.
>

I don't use debian much either but I've just logged into a debian box and
found that /etc/network/interfaces seems to be the file you need.  The
line should read:
iface eth0 inet dhcp

then ifup should get the address for you.

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Mark O'Shea