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Re: Home network with Debian



At 04:38 PM 12/29/00 -0600, Pascal Hos wrote:
On Friday 29 December 2000 04:37 pm, JD Kitch wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote:
> > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed?  How do I
> > > determine the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1, and then for
> > > the internal machine?
> >
> > i use 192.168.*.* for mine. my public linux box is also
> > privately 192.168.1.1, which is what all the other boxes
> > around here refer to as their gateway or default route.
> > other machines are anything from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.254.254
> > and anything else in between.
> >
> >     # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8),
> > ifdown(8)
> >
> >     # The loopback interface
> >     iface lo inet loopback
> >
> >     # my internal / private LAN section:
> >     iface eth0 inet static
> >             address 192.168.1.1
> >             netmask 255.255.255.0
> >             network 192.168.0.0
> >             broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >
> >     # the part the 'rest of the world' can see
> >     iface eth1 inet static
> >             address 208.33.90.85
> >             netmask 255.255.255.0
> >             network 208.33.90.0
> >             broadcast 208.33.90.255
> >             gateway 208.33.90.84
> >             # the gateway there is actually my cablemodem!
>
> OK, this all helps.  I'm guessing I'll just pick an IP from that
> same block for the wife's machine.  Is that true, and if so will I
> point to my cable providers DNS server, or do I need to do
> something else internally?

Point to the gateway server.
e.g.
# more /etc/resolv.conf
search houston.rr.com rr.com
nameserver 192.168.0.1


If you have roadrunner then you most likely don't have a static IP address.
try loading dhcp-client and looking a little further down the interfaces file.

# An ethernet DHCP client:

iface eth1 inet dhcp

dhcp will set your IP address, gateway address, DNS address (rewrites /etc/resolv.conf), mask, etc.



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