On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:12:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> yup dhcp sucks, for potato configure your interfaces in
> /etc/network/interfaces
>
> something like this:
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.0.0
> broadcast 192.168.0.255
> gateway 192.168.0.10
>
> your addresses will obviously be different.
Cool, thanks. I guess a startup script reads this and does the appropriate
ifconfig and route commands? I like doing them manually a few times just to
learn what's going on. Hell, there's always a problem where you need the
manual commands. I wouldn't want to do it every time the system boots, but...
Mike
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