Re: Problem switching to static IP address
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:56:31AM -0300, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães wrote:
> just to be sure, does your firewall rules allows you to ping other computers
> ?
Yes
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Robert Baron <robertbartlettbaron@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried using ifconfig?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:02:39PM -0300, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi Thomas,
> >> >
> >> > Can't you just use "/etc/init.d/networking restart" ?
> >> >
> >> > Marcos
> >>
> >> It doesn't work. That is if I edit ifstate to set eth0=eth0 and restart
> >> networking it reports the network is reconfigured but the network is
> >> still unreachable (I tried pinging another computer on the lan) and
> >> ifconfig shows the settings of eth0 are unchanged, are still the
> >> settings from bootup during which the system looked for a DHCP
> >> connection and found none.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info
> >> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I have built a very nice Debian Live CD but with two problems.
> >> > >
> >> > > One, I can't switch to the static IP addressed used by my lan. I
> >> included
> >> > > a copy of my interfaces file in chroot_local-includes. When I boot
> >> from the
> >> > > CD I can substitute this file in /etc/network but I can't find a way
> >> to
> >> > > shutdown the network and restart it with the substituted file. I must
> >> have
> >> > > failed to include some package as there is no network entry in the
> >> > > Debian/Applications drop down list.
> >> > >
> >> > > (Bringing along my special config files does work very nicely in other
> >> > > cases. Specifically, I have an xorg.conf file which allows me to use
> >> a
> >> > > Wacom tablet. After booting from the cd I substitute a copy of this
> >> file
> >> > > and restart gdm and the Wacom tablet works perfectly.)
> >> > >
> >> > > My second problem must also be an omitted package as only root has a
> >> > > terminal window.
> >> > >
> >> > > The CD is 575 MB. I hope a couple small packages might correct these
> >> > > problems without taking more than the remaining space.
> >> > >
> >> > > Tom
> >> > >
> >> > >
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> >> > Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães.
> >> > Engenharia Eletrônica e de Computação.
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> >>
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