D'oh!

[Tyler Aviss]

Could you clarify what the issues might be with this config? I've had
it working for years this way without any issues thus far.

On Dec 11, 2007 11:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:11:24AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > Chris Aitken wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > This is getting worse. I found a site that advises how to set a static
> > ip. Unfortunately I couldn't find instructions how to set up static (for
> > local network) AND dhcp-assigned (for Internet). I should have printed
> > out my /etc/network/interfaces file but didn't - so now I don't have the
> > default to reset it to to at least get my Internet back. So, here's the
> > butchered /etc/network/interfaces file (maybe you can see what I am
> > trying to do):
> >
> > #primary network interface
> > auto eth0:1
> > iface eth0:1 inet static
> > address 192.168.0.2
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> > network 192.168.0.0
> > broadcast 192.168.0.255
> > gateway 192.168.0.1
> >
> > #iface eth0 inet dhcp
> > address 192.168.0.225
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> > gateway 192.168.0.1
> >
> > I guess my next step will be to look at the /etc/network/interfaces file
> > on the computer I'm on right now. It's a fedora 7 box so I nope that
> > nothing will be different.
>
> That setup looks wrong.  You have essentially set it to have dhcp on
> eth0 and also have an alias that is a static IP.  That doesn't work
> well.  You /etc/network/interfaces should be:
>
> #primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address 192.168.0.2
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         gateway 192.168.0.1
>
> And hopefully you also have something like:
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> That should do it all.
>
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> Len Sorensen
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