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Re: [newbie] Setting up network



On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 at 12:32am, Aryan Ameri wrote:

:Untill now, I only got online using a dial up connection. Now i am going to 
:dormitory, and in order to get online I have to connect to my dormitory's 
:LAN. I can setup the network using the following two commands:
:
:ifconfig eth0 my.ip.add.ress up
:route add default gw my.gw.ip.address
:
:but it is so frustrating to issue these commands whenever I reboot my 
:computer. I know there are ways to automate this proccess and there are 
:progrms which setup the network on each boot. But I am not able to find out 
:how. Can anyone please help?

As I was told just last week :) 'man interfaces' will explain how to
configure for automatic connection.

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Wiseman                               pwiseman@mindspring.com
Linux user #17943                             *Google First, Ask Later*



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