On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > here's a problem. I configured my network configuring > files /etc/network/interfaces > and it works lovelly. The thing is more of curiosity. > > I tried doing the configuration with ifconfig > but I cant connect to hosts rather than the ones that lie in the same > portion of network, I mean the ones that are attached to the same hub. > Everything looks fine, as I said, when configured with the initilizing > scritp /etc/inid.d/networking > > when configuring by hand with ifconfig I used: > > ifconfig eth0 address netmask mask_address up > > replacing address and mask_address by the actual ip addresses. > > Also if instead of ifconfig I use ipup, thigs work fine in the same way. > I read in the ifup man pages that ifup uses ifconfig. > > does anyone has a clue about what is this problem related with? > Hello,
have you set the gateway? route add default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 for example? Greetz, Sebastiaan
