[NBLUG/talk] Networking newbie

[A'fish'ionado]

> What's the output of your ifconfig command?  What's the contents of your
> /etc/network/interfaces file?

# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8D:53:57:B3
          inet addr:10.0.0.255  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fe53:57b3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2052 (2.0 KiB)  TX bytes:2124 (2.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:201 Base address:0xc000

# ifdown eth0
# ifup eth0
# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8D:53:57:B3
          inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fe53:57b3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2052 (2.0 KiB)  TX bytes:2362 (2.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:201 Base address:0xc000

/etc/network/interfaces looks like:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.0.0.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 10.0.0.255


I'm still on dialup (yay dynamic IPs!), so SSHing from the net in
might take a little bit to coordinate.

William