Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces
Michael Heldebrandt wrote:
> I have the same lo lines and mine works fine. How is your eth0
> interface configured? Is it also in /etc/network/interfaces?
No, I'm still in the beginning stages of getting my Linux machine
usable, so I haven't networked with my wife's Windows machine yet. I
did go ahead and set the Debian machine as the gateway machine (for
future masquerading), but I didn't do much else.
> More info on it can be found with:
> man interfaces
Thanks.
> It looks like you need a default gateway to the internet through your
> ppp0 interface instead of your eth0
Yes! Thank you! Your saying this led me to the solution of my original
problem, namely, not being able to connect to the internet. I had
thought that I needed such a default gateway, but I understood that it
would be set up automatically when I signed on to my ISP (which, in
fact, is true).
> pppd should allow you the option of configuring a default gateway for
> the ppp0 interface in the config files for your specific host.
Yes, the configuration file is /etc/ppp/peers/provider. The keyword to
set the option is "defaultroute". But this was already set properly, so
there was some other problem. As you suspected, it was the eth0 default
gateway. I deleted it and the problem was fixed. Well...not entirely.
I can't make the solution stick. When I reboot, my default gateway gets
reset to the original eth0 interface! How can I change this
permanently?
Also, according to one person, when I do get around to setting up my
LAN, I'm supposed to set up my ethernet gateway as a *network* route
using the "add -net" option of the route command; but this was not
suggested at
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=2b86ab0506c3635d&rnum=2 where
this very problem seems to have been the topic. Does anybody know?
Thank you!
Charles
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