Re: How to change a gateway?

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Bill wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 18:46 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>   
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:42:38AM -0800, Bill wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > What is the best way to change the IP address of a gateway?
> > > Other than using the route command - that won't survive a reboot.
> > >
> > > I have a new router with a different IP and need to configure
> > > accordingly.
> > >
> > > I find the basic data is in /etc/network/interfaces, but it's a
> > > "no-edit" file. Presumably there's a better way? A tool, a script?
> > >       
>
>   
> > Why is it a "no-edit" file? I thought *this* was the way to configure
> > network on Debian.
> >     
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, as you can see from below the file contains statements like 
> "please do not modify the following line."
>   
That may have come from somewhere but mine have never had such lines.  
man 5 interfaces says:

/etc/network/interfaces contains network interface configuration 
information for the ifup(8) and ifdown(8) commands.  This is where you 
configure how your system is connected to the network.

Paul Scott