Re: Static IP Setup Problem in Sarge

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:21:49PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I used jigdo-lite to get sarge-i386-1.iso (cd version), burnt the cd and
> installed the Debian Base System on a new computer.  All went well
> except I cannot connect to our LAN.  The DHCP setup says it has obtained
> an IP address but the address is wrong and the gateway is wrong.
> 
> The other computers on the LAN and the firewall use static addresses so
> I edited /etc/network/interfaces replacing
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> with
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> 	address 192.168.2.105
> 	netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	broadcast 192.168.2.255
> 	gateway 192.168.2.102
> 
> but ifup eth0 fails with a message about missing information.

My /e/n/i has a line like this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.2.4
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.2.255
        gateway 192.168.2.1
        network 192.168.254.0  <--- line in question

Oddly, it's WRONG!  The network address has been incorrect for several
months and I just now noticed, so probably nothing cares about it.

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