Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

[John Bleichert <syborg@earthlink.net>]

On 05/24/2014 09:06 AM, csanyipal@gmail.com wrote:
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> Well, I just tried that, but without success.
>
> /etc/network/interfaces
> -----------------------
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>    address 217.17.111.173
>    netmask 255.255.255.0
>    gateway 217.17.111.1
>
> # ifdown eth0
> # ifup eth0
>
> $ ping 8.8.8.8
>
> I get the following output:
>
> PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > From 217.17.111.173 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> Can I do anything to setup my home network or must to wait monday for
> ISP's admins?
>
> --
> Regards, from Paul

You may have to restart the networking or network-manager service or 
just reboot. I had to when I first setup static. Not sure why but it 
needed more than ifdown/ifup.

e.g.:

# service networking restart

or, as I said, reboot.

John


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