From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Miller Subject: Re: Debian network reconfigure Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:38:32 -0600 (CST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040101154809.02021888@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040101154809.02021888@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs