Re: Debian network reconfigure

Ray Olszewski
2004-01-01T23:54:20Z

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.