On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:21:49PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I used jigdo-lite to get sarge-i386-1.iso (cd version), burnt the cd and
> installed the Debian Base System on a new computer. All went well
> except I cannot connect to our LAN. The DHCP setup says it has obtained
> an IP address but the address is wrong and the gateway is wrong.
>
> The other computers on the LAN and the firewall use static addresses so
> I edited /etc/network/interfaces replacing
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> with
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.2.105
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> broadcast 192.168.2.255
> gateway 192.168.2.102
>
> but ifup eth0 fails with a message about missing information.
My /e/n/i has a line like this:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.4
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.2.255
gateway 192.168.2.1
network 192.168.254.0 <--- line in question
Oddly, it's WRONG! The network address has been incorrect for several
months and I just now noticed, so probably nothing cares about it.
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