Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
| I brought a machine home from work, and did some updates on it ths weekend.
| During these I was offered the option of letting debconf configure the
| network. I alowed this to happen.
|
| Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat.
You probably said yes to dynamically obtaining an ip.
| Where can I turn this off?
/etc/network/interfaces
You probably have a line similar to :
iface eth0 inet dhcp
that you will want to change to something similar to
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
HTH,
-D
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