Re: Debian network reconfigure

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 11:44 PM 1/1/2004 +0000, jamtat@mailsnare.net wrote:
>I've tried various things I can think of on a Debian system and
>searched the web a bit for information, but I'm still at a loss.  I've
>moved a Debian machine that was on a dhcp network to a network that uses
>static addressing.  I was hoping there is a way to rerun the network
>setup dialogue so that I can assign eth0 a static address and tell it where
>the gateway is.  Is there a way to rerun it?  If so, where and how?

I don't know offhand, though it is a good goess that there is some 
"dpkg-reconfigure" command that will do what you want. The fact that this 
setup is part of a install makes it a bit complicated.

The easy solution, though, is to hand edit (using vi, emacs, or whatever 
text processor you like) the file /etc/network/interfaces to remove the 
DHCP assignment and replace it with a static address. A sample stanza for 
this (taken from one of my workstations) is:

         auto eth0
         # comment out next line to remove DHCP assignment
         #iface eth0 inet dhcp
         iface eth0 inet static
                         address 192.168.1.1
                         netmask 255.255.255.0
                         network 192.168.1.0
                         broadcast 192.168.1.255
                         gateway 192.168.1.86

All the networking setup program does is provide a front-end to editing 
this file.

So edit it, then run ...

         /etc/init.d/networking restart

... and you should be set.

Do all this as root, of course.



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