On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:25:26AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Well... here's an interesting observation! > > My gateway is at a different address from my DNSserver. > > (For what it's worth: Gateway=192.168.1.254, DNSserver=192.168.1.118) > > I noticed that the non-DHCP network configuration step always > offers to set the DNSserver to the same address the gateway. And I > always change it to point to my DNSserver. > > But this time I tried (out of desperation -- just trying random > stuff) leaving the DNSserver the same as the gateway. If you do not CC [bugnumber]@bugs.debian.org, nobody except me will see this. > And it worked! It did *not* loop back to the network configuration > step. > > Is this a clue? What log files (or whatever else) do you need to > see to followup on this? > > Would somebody please try this out on an i386? (DNSserver > address != Gateway address) And let me know if it breaks non-DHCP > network configuration? This is my configuration at home, so yes, I've tried it. DNS server = 192.168.1.1 Gateway = 192.168.2.2 Works on i386 and sparc. > As I say, It's easy to try... you never need to get to the point of > touching the disks. Indeed. It's why so much work has been done on netcfg as opposed to something like silo-installer. -- Joshua Kwan
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