Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:22:16 -0500 (EST), Markos wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to configure a machine with two network cards to share 
> Internet access to an internal network
> 
> the /etc/network/interface is:
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>          address 192.168.0.1
>          netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> 
> The card eth0 is used as gateway on the internal network with static IP 
> 192.168.0.1 and eth1 is connected to the B-890 -53 Huawei modem.
> 
> But the modem do not send an IP during initialization.
> 
> The IP of modem is 192.168.1.1.
> 
> The modem sends the IP address (192.168.0.4) to my laptop by wifi 
> without problems.
> 
> Any suggestions of what I should check?

I'm afraid that I don't understand the problem.  Is this a traditional
async dial-up modem?  If so, I would expect it to be configured with ppp,
its interface name would be ppp0, and it would not be listed in
/etc/network/interfaces at all.  I don't get it.

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