On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +0000, Steve Kleene wrote: > I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their > network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I > still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the > change, I provided network operations with my MAC address, which I got > from the output of ifconfig -a: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr aa:00:04:00:0a:04
(...) If adminds are requesting you the MAC address you may be still need to setup a dynamic configuration for your adapter (DHCP). So I would first ask them what kind of setup it is needed on your computer for a proper operation. > I didn't list broadcast since the older machine's interfaces file seems > to work fine without it. DNS stuff is handled by /etc/resolv.conf. > Connectivity is fine except that it's not at the assigned static IP (as > judged by ifconfig -a). Are you running wheezy on a VM? It looks like some configuration file/ script/policy is taking the network setup and thus preventing the system to use your custom settings :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.15.12.52...@gmail.com
