SOLVED: Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

[Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>]

On 2014-01-03 8:43 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 07:29:52 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> > Since I've configured eth0 for a static IP, why are these DHCP
> > requests even happening? I've looked in /etc/init.d and don't see
> > anything about a DHCP client. And most importantly, how do I stop
> > them? I know I could probably uninstall DHCP client, but that
> > doesn't seem like the proper solution.

> You could start by taking a look at the thread at
>
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg00434.html

Perfect, thanks... googling didn't reveal that thread... :(

Since I hadn't cp'd my original /etc/network/interfaces file (so I 
couldn't do the 'ifdown -i  /etc/network/interfaces.bak eth0' part, I 
just found/killed the running dhcp client process.

Seems to have taken care of it.

Thx again