Re: Networking configuration?

[Christian Schoenebeck <christian.schoenebeck@epost.de>]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:15:53 -0500 (EST)
Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi, all:
> 
> I'm not sure how I broke networking, but when I boot up, my ethernet
> card is recognised, but it has no IP address and the box is not known
> to my other lan boxes.  Doing
> 
> #ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.11
> 
> corrects the problem, but now the external network is unavailable. 
> Doing
> 
> #route add default gw 192.168.1.1
> 
> fixes that problem.
> 
> Where are the configuration files to automate all this?  It used to
> work,

The startup script for basic network is /etc/init.d/networking.
But adding your NICs to /etc/network/interfaces should be all you have
to do. It should look like this:

	# The loopback interface	
	auto lo
	iface lo inet loopback

	# 1st NIC
	auto eth0
	iface eth0 inet static
		address 192.168.200.7
		netmask 255.255.255.0
		network 192.168.200.0
		broadcast 192.168.200.255
		gateway 192.168.200.254

	# 2nd NIC
	...

Regards,
Christian