problems getting static ip to work
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Hi:
Let me preface
my question by saying I am a novice on Linux
I have a
laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a pcmcia
card.
I use it as an
IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP
address.
by changing
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in the appropriate
fields
(I actually
used pcnetconfig, so it generated the file for me)
My
/etc/network/interfaces looks like this
auto
lo
iface lo inet
loopback
eth0
iface eth0
inet static
address
192.168.2.6
netmask
255.255.255.0
network
192.168.2.0
gateway
192.168.2.1
ifconfig -a
does seem to give me
information that eth0 is configured (I can even it ping it from another machine
on the network)
I am noticing 2
problems.
On boot up I get a
"neighbor table overflow" message. I was told this has something to do with the
loopback not being configured, but I thought my interfaces file should take care
of this.
More importantly, my
IMAP daemon does not seem to be retrieving any mail from my Pop
server.
I tried doing a
% telnet 127.0.0.1
imap2
and it
hangs......
I think I'm going in
circles here and I'd appreciate it if someone can explain to me what the problem
is and how I might fix it?
Thanks
much
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