I'm running debian etch, with all current updates.
After a thunderstorm dropped power a few times, I have been back on the
net, obviously.
For some reason, the /etc/network/interfaces file is not being
read, or not being read properly.
cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.102
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
When using this file, and then doing an ifconfig, I get these results;
ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:15:8E:33
inet addr:169.254.*.* Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 (removed for a
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fe15:8e33/64 Scope:Link bit of privacy) ;-)
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4549 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2995721 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:476602 (465.4 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc400
Yet, if I do the following, I cannot get past the router;
sudo ifconfig eth0 up address 192.168.1.102 netmask 255.255.255.0
this makes this computer think it is 192.168.1.1
Any ideas?
Thanks
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