D'oh!

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 12 13:37:33 UTC 2007


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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