Re: networking: fixed ip address and dhcp

[Bonnel Christophe <mage.tophinus@free.fr>]

Hi,

What type of ping did you try ?
1) does "ping XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1" work ? (If no, paste here the output of 
"ifconfig" command)
2) does "ping 209.85.135.99" work ? (If no, paste here the output of 
"route -n" command) (This is a google ip)
3) does "ping www.google.fr" work ? (If no, paste here the output of 
"cat /etc/resolv.conf" command)

Hope this helps
Christophe

John O Laoi a écrit :
> I have a dell laptop on which I have just performed a basic install of
> etch using netinstall, on which I installed xfce.
> (I did have gnome, but I needed to repartition, so i decided to try xfce.)
>
> The problem is now with my networking
> At home, I use dhcp  - no problem.
> When I bring the laptop to work, I use fixed ip addressing.
>
> I used to have a file which contained
>
> ifconfig eth1 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW  netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default gw  XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1
> cat "seach <domain>"   >> /etc/resolv.conf
> cat "nameserver  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD"  >> resolv.conf
>
> which I would simply sudo when I get to work and I got my static ip
> address networking to work.
>
> This does not work now  - I can't ping out.
> When I run ifconfig at the command line, it gives me the correct ip
> address, and tells me that it is up.
>
> The /etc/network/interfaces file is
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>
>
> I did a very basic install – maybe something is missing.
> any ideas?
> John
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