Re: Network config problem
On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:41 am, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called
> Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but
> I'm failing to get the access to the Net working.
> Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP address
> as before, configuring it as 'static dhcp - hostname pump' in
> /etc/interfaces. But when I try _any_ ping (any but my own address and
> localhost, of course), it fails with a "Network is unreachable"
> message. It's strange to me that the ping fails, but the names are
> correctly resolved to their respective IPs.
> I hope this is a good enough description of my problem. I'm not any
> expert, so it's possible I'm missing something shamely (is this an
> english word ?) obvious, I'm tired of reading many HOWTOs and rebooting
> once and againg without success.
>
> Thanks in advance !!
>
> Daniel
shouldn't the path be /etc/network/interfaces?
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