[NBLUG/talk] Networking newbie

[Tim Preston]

As a linux lurker, I'm just taking a stab at the problem...

Shouldn't the file only have reference to the eth0 interface. Yes? So, 
try removing the first (# out the lines as shown below) reference to 
eth0. Then reboot as see what happens.

A'fish'ionado wrote:
>>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
> 
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