Re: Network config easy question (solved)
Thank you!
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Boon" <terry@counterfactual.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Network config easy question
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:27:53PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote:
> > Dumb question, how do I set the IP address, netmask, gateway, and dns
host
> > on Debian? The docs say that I should edit a file named 'network' but I
> > don't find any such file.
>
> /etc/network/interfaces is where you may want to look. Here's mine as
> an example (with one ethernet card):
>
> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
>
> # The loopback interface
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
> # installation
> # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 172.16.0.2
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 172.16.0.0
> broadcast 172.16.0.255
> # gateway 172.16.0.1
>
> As an earlier respondent said, "man interfaces" is useful.
>
> DNS hosts are specified in /etc/resolv.conf. "man resolv.conf" is
> useful here.
>
> --
> Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK
> terry@counterfactual.org
>
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