Re: change IP and default route.

[Jonathan Colaco <jcolaco@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:53:15 +0000, Dr. David Kirkby
<drkirkby@medphys.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I installed a system on a company network with a fixed IP
> (213.78.42.115), but recently bought a small router. The PC will now
> have to use the router as the default route, and I will make the IP
> private.
> 
> The following commands do what I want
> 
> # ifconfig eth0 192.168.123.1 netname 255.255.255.0 # set my IP to
> 192.168.123.1
> # route add default gw 192.168.123.254
> 
> But how do I set this to happen automatically?  I changed the IP in
> /etc/hosts, and had an attempt at changing /etc/gateways, but clearly
> not successfully, as the routing does work after a reboot - I need to
> type these commands again.
> 

Try this:

edit the file: /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.123.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.123.0
        broadcast 192.168.123.255
        gateway 192.168.123.254


and than: /etc/init.d/network restart

Jonathan Colaço - Jc