Re: ifconfig problem
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
> here's a problem. I configured my network configuring
> files /etc/network/interfaces
> and it works lovelly. The thing is more of curiosity.
>
> I tried doing the configuration with ifconfig
> but I cant connect to hosts rather than the ones that lie in the same
> portion of network, I mean the ones that are attached to the same hub.
> Everything looks fine, as I said, when configured with the initilizing
> scritp /etc/inid.d/networking
>
> when configuring by hand with ifconfig I used:
>
> ifconfig eth0 address netmask mask_address up
>
> replacing address and mask_address by the actual ip addresses.
>
> Also if instead of ifconfig I use ipup, thigs work fine in the same way.
> I read in the ifup man pages that ifup uses ifconfig.
>
> does anyone has a clue about what is this problem related with?
>
Hello,
have you set the gateway?
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
for example?
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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