Re: Debian network reconfigure

James Miller
2004-01-02T00:38:32Z

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> At 11:44 PM 1/1/2004 +0000, jamtat@mailsnare.net wrote:
> >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.

I was trying to guess at just some such thing - dpkg-reconfigure
myguesshere - but my missed guesses were leading only to frustration.
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for the tip, Ray. I wanted to do something like this from the
start, but I thought I should try whatever automated avenues the system
might offer for it first. I never quite know when to start editing
manually and when to rely on some sort of wizard thingy. Anyway, I've
edited the file accordingly so I should be set.

Appreciate it, James