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Daniel Foote wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">TO THE REST OF THE PLUG LIST: Supposing that a modem is working and
connected and attached to you Debian Sarge based PC via Ethernet, what would
be the steps (1, 2, 3, 4 etc.) that you would do in an X Windows session to
tell your computer to use 192.168.1.1 as the Default Gateway with
transparent proxy and DNS from the modem and to ignore your dial-up
connection and use the Ethernet instead.
Can some people who are more familiar with this OS than I am please post
some really simple steps to help make the changes required.
This is the bit that I will still need help with from the rest of the PLUG
list... anyone?
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<pre wrap="">1. Become root
$ su root
Password: ******
1a. Log on as root if on local console
Login: root
Password:
#
2. Bring down eth0
# ifdown eth0
You can confirm that you need to set the gateway by setting the
interface up manually, temporarily.
3. Confirm by bringing up eth0 with a gateway (assuming host IP is .1.2)
# ifconfig eth0 address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 up
4. Try the connection to see if it works. It should at this point. If
not, something was entered wrong. Use:
# ifconfig eth0 down
before trying step 3 again.
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<pre wrap="">As you can see, this is not easy to explain to another person, or to
have them do. For all we know, the root password might be unknown,
which means it all stops at step 1.</pre>
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Thanks Daniel. That is the kind of stuff I was after.<br>
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<pre wrap="">If you think it will help, pass it on.</pre>
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You have already passed it on by posting to PLUG.<br>
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David, if you're reading, this is probably worth a shot...<br>
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