[plug] Debian Networking Question

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:33:41PM +0800, 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.

The interface stuff is in /etc/network/interfaces, which has a man page,
interfaces(5).  There are tools to configure it, but I can't remember
the names of them.  Here's an extract from my laptop, with the static
entry commented:

  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp

  #auto eth0
  #iface eth0 inet static
  #        address 172.22.9.39
  #        netmask 255.255.254.0
  #        gateway 172.22.8.1




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Russell Steicke

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