Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > The only thing that's always annoying is that too many programs > believe they have to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf... chattr +i # immutable still works :)

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-06, George at Clug wrote: >> What I really need is a good book >> or document that explains the design >> and implementation of networking with systemd and Network Manager on >> modern Debian GNU/Linux systems.  Recommendations? > > Sadly I have not found any documentation (or books) f

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 21:51:09 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > What I really need is a good book or document that explains the design and > implementation of networking with systemd and Network Manager on modern > Debian GNU/Linux systems. Recommendations? The main thing to understand is that

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/6/24 06:51, David Christensen wrote: The underlying issue appears to be that my old-school Linux console network administration skills have been rendered obsolete by systemd and NetworkManager. I don't think that these skills are obsolete. I still use /etc/network/interfaces for everythi

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/6/24 06:37, jeremy ardley wrote: As I said in my earlier post, it's not necessary to disable dhcpd and in fact it is likely undesirable. Note that the warning in the wiki talks about dhcpcd, not about dhcpd. Though as a pointed out before, your machine very likely will have NetworkManag

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Detlef Vollmann
erface with DHCP and a development LAN with a static IP address. So disabling DHCP may cause additional problems and will solve none. Detlef

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 06-07-2024 at 14:51 David Christensen wrote: > On 7/5/24 19:06, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 7/5/24 21:14, George at Clug wrote: > > > > Thank you for your replies. > > > The underlying issue appears to be that my old-school Linux console > network administration skills have bee

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread jeremy ardley
On 6/7/24 12:51, David Christensen wrote: What I really need is a good book or document that explains the design and implementation of networking with systemd and Network Manager on modern Debian GNU/Linux systems.  Recommendations? If you want to persist with the NetworkManager approach,

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread David Christensen
On 7/5/24 19:06, Max Nikulin wrote: On 7/5/24 21:14, George at Clug wrote: Thank you for your replies. The underlying issue appears to be that my old-school Linux console network administration skills have been rendered obsolete by systemd and NetworkManager. I typically install Xfce whe

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread jeremy ardley
On 6/7/24 09:16, David Christensen wrote: I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.network-config.en.html#sect.interface-ethernet As I said in my earlier post, it

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread George at Clug
David, How are your efforts toward setting a static IP address going? Have you succeeded. I set up a lot of test servers (for fun and no profit), and hence work with Hypervisors (KVM more than Virtual Box), and have some experience in this area. But at this point I am not sure if you need

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/07/2024 08:16, David Christensen wrote: I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: [...] https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration?action=info The following sentence: "Make sure to disable all DHCP services, e.g. dh

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread David Christensen
On 7/4/24 21:08, Felix Miata wrote: On 7/4/24 21:10, jeremy ardley wrote: On 7/5/24 11:44, Franco Martelli wrote: Thank you all for the replies. I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: https://www.debian.org/doc/ma

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread Franco Martelli
On 05/07/24 at 04:06, David Christensen wrote: The VM currently has a DHCP address.  I would like to set a static IPv4 address.  The Debian wiki tells me to edit /etc/network/interfaces and provides some example settings that I believe I can adapt to my use-case: ... What is the correct meth

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread jeremy ardley
On 5/7/24 13:13, jeremy ardley wrote: On 5/7/24 10:30, Felix Miata wrote: I think there are more than one. One thing is to check what is enabled, then disable or uninstall whatever owns the unit(s): systemctl list-unit-files | egrep 'net|dhcp' Do the same with whatever "manages" /etc

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread jeremy ardley
On 5/7/24 10:30, Felix Miata wrote: I think there are more than one. One thing is to check what is enabled, then disable or uninstall whatever owns the unit(s): systemctl list-unit-files | egrep 'net|dhcp' Do the same with whatever "manages" /etc/resolv.conf, and create a regular fil

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread jeremy ardley
On 5/7/24 10:06, David Christensen wrote: The Debian wiki also says: "Make sure to disable all DHCP services, e.g. dhcpcd." What is the correct method to "disable all DHCP services"? The instruction is not necessary. It doesn't matter if there is a dhcp server anywhere if the client -

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
ur own design. >> I don't use VMs, but I did several hours ago instruct several hours ago using >> systemd-network to setup static IP service for a *buntu user who couldn't get >> netplan sorted: >> <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/netplan-ap

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread David Christensen
n't get netplan sorted: <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/netplan-apply-no-longer-setting-static-ip-address-4175738702/#post6512274> I've been using systemd-network static IPs on everything for several years, including Bullseye. 2024-07-04 20:15:43 root@laalaa ~

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
etup static IP service for a *buntu user who couldn't get netplan sorted: <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/netplan-apply-no-longer-setting-static-ip-address-4175738702/#post6512274> I've been using systemd-network static IPs on everything for several years, incl

Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-04 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have built a VirtualBox virtual machine and installed Debian 11 with SSH server and standard system utilities only. I plan to use the VM to run the UniFi Network Controller to manage the UniFi equipment on my SOHO LAN: root@unifi:~# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.10 Li

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-02 Thread Thomas George
OK and thanks. I will do that On 03/02/2018 05:16 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-02, Thomas George wrote: I think this should work. For the present I have moved on to other tasks. The printer has a usb connection to the pc so I can print as needed. Others on the lan cannot use the printer. You

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-02 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-02, Thomas George wrote: > I think this should work. For the present I have moved on to other > tasks. The printer has a usb connection to the pc so I can print as > needed. Others on the lan cannot use the printer. > > You could share the usb-connected printer via cups: https://wik

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-01 Thread john doe
On 3/2/2018 2:03 AM, Thomas George wrote: I think this should work. For the present I have moved on to other tasks. The printer has a usb connection to the pc so I can print as needed. Others on the lan cannot use the printer. you can share the printer using cups. The other on the LAN would

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-01 Thread Thomas George
I think this should work. For the present I have moved on to other tasks. The printer has a usb connection to the pc so I can print as needed. Others on the lan cannot use the printer. On 03/01/2018 05:08 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote: Can't you just plug the printer locally to a PC, change manually

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-01 Thread Bernd Gruber
Can't you just plug the printer locally to a PC, change manually the PC's network-address to 192.168.1.x, connect to the printer and change its IP to 192.168.2.x. Then, of course, you will loose the connection, but the printer will be in the desired network. Don't forget to change IP-configurati

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-28 Thread Thomas George
On 02/28/2018 07:34 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Curt wrote: On 2018-02-28, Dan Purgert wrote: Thomas George wrote: The printer has no physical control panel. I can only change the settings if I can reach it through its IP address. Many printers will print a "self-test" or "configuration" page w

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-28 Thread Dan Purgert
Curt wrote: > On 2018-02-28, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Thomas George wrote: >>> The printer has no physical control panel. I can only change the >>> settings if I can reach it through its IP address. >> >> Many printers will print a "self-test" or "configuration" page when >> holding the "online" but

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-02-28, Dan Purgert wrote: > Thomas George wrote: >> The printer has no physical control panel. I can only change the >> settings if I can reach it through its IP address. > > Many printers will print a "self-test" or "configuration" page when > holding the "online" button for 5-10 seconds

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread john doe
On 2/28/2018 1:37 AM, Thomas George wrote: On 02/27/2018 01:24 PM, john doe wrote: On 2/27/2018 7:07 PM, Thomas George wrote: The Samsung CLP-320 printer's static ip 192.168.1.139 was set about 10 years ago to work on a lan using 192.168.1.x addresses. Last week the lan's router failed and w

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Dan Purgert
Thomas George wrote: > The printer has no physical control panel. I can only change the > settings if I can reach it through its IP address. Many printers will print a "self-test" or "configuration" page when holding the "online" button for 5-10 seconds. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #5859

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
On 02/27/2018 08:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2018 16:21:59 Thomas George wrote: I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use." Tried several other final two dig

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 February 2018 20:04:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2018 16:21:59 Thomas George wrote: > > I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 > > > > and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: > > Address already in use." Tried se

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 February 2018 16:21:59 Thomas George wrote: > I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 > > and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: > Address already in use." Tried several other final two digits with the > same result. I even tried 1

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
On 02/27/2018 01:24 PM, john doe wrote: On 2/27/2018 7:07 PM, Thomas George wrote: The Samsung CLP-320 printer's static ip 192.168.1.139 was set about 10 years ago to work on a lan using 192.168.1.x addresses. Last week the lan's router failed and was replaced with a Netgear r6700 router usi

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 04:21:59PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 > > and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address > already in use." That means you've already got something else listening on the DNS por

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Doug
On 02/27/2018 04:21 PM, Thomas George wrote: I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use." Tried several other final two digits with the same result. I even tried 192.168.1.139, the

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use." Tried several other final two digits with the same result. I even tried 192.168.1.139, the address the printer prints out on its Network

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Marc Auslander
I don't think you can talk to a 192.168.1.xxx ip address from a machine that thinks it's on a 192.168.2/24 network - you machine will just try to route the traffic through your router. I might try to change the netmask on the router to 255.255.0.0 which would put the 192.168.1.xxx into your local

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:07:17PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > apt-cache search dhcpd finds udhcpd. My pc's system is Debian Stretch. There > is a file /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf but no file /etc/dhcpd. There's something wrong with your repository selection. What you probably need is c

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread john doe
On 2/27/2018 7:07 PM, Thomas George wrote: The Samsung CLP-320 printer's static ip 192.168.1.139 was set about 10 years ago to work on a lan using 192.168.1.x addresses. Last week the lan's router failed and was replaced with a Netgear r6700 router using 192.168.2.x addresses. The printer is no

printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
The Samsung CLP-320 printer's static ip 192.168.1.139 was set about 10 years ago to work on a lan using 192.168.1.x addresses. Last week the lan's router failed and was replaced with a Netgear r6700 router using 192.168.2.x addresses. The printer is now inaccessible from the lan. Cups Administ

Re: moving wireless to static IP address (SOLVED)

2016-06-15 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:24:45AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > To avoid booting delay while DHCP tries to get an IP address, I decided > to use a static address for the wlan0 interface. > > I tried this: > > auto wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet static > address 192.168.1.124 > gateway 192.168.1.1 >

moving wireless to static IP address

2016-06-13 Thread Haines Brown
other machines and disks. The wicd Preferences I also set up for static IP address. However, the check box before the Key field is not checked, for apparently it wasn't necessary. Haines Brown

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:35:09 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 14:45:32 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:09:08 +0100 > > > Brian wrote: > > > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:59 +, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2015-08-28, David Wrig

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 14:45:32 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:09:08 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:59 +, Curt wrote: > > > > On 2015-08-28, David Wright wrote: > > > > > $ host localhost > > > > > Host localhost

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 16:13:34 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-08-28, Brian wrote: > > > > I think I'll leave this topic at this point before I get in over my > > head, but the implication here is that a resolver not giving 127.0.0.1 > > for localhost is broken in some way. > > > > So I'm not broke

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Curt
On 2015-08-28, Brian wrote: > > I think I'll leave this topic at this point before I get in over my > head, but the implication here is that a resolver not giving 127.0.0.1 > for localhost is broken in some way. > So I'm not broken somehow.

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 17:00:59 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:35:09 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 14:45:32 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:09:08 +0100 > > > Brian wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:5

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:35:09 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 14:45:32 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:09:08 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:59 +, Curt wrote: > > > > > > > On 2015-08-28, David Wright wrote: > > >

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 14:45:32 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:09:08 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:59 +, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2015-08-28, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > $ host localhost > > > > Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) >

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:09:08 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:59 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2015-08-28, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > $ host localhost > > > Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > > $ ping localhost > > > PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of dat

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 10:01:59 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-08-28, David Wright wrote: > > > > $ host localhost > > Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > $ ping localhost > > PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > > 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.032

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-28 Thread Curt
On 2015-08-28, David Wright wrote: > > $ host localhost > Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > $ ping localhost > PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms curty@einstein:~$ host localhost localhost has address 127.0

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de): > * David Wright [2015-08-27 13:29 -0500]: > > > Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de): > > > * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? > > >

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Wright [2015-08-27 13:29 -0500]: > Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de): > > * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]: > > > > [...] > > > > > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? > > > > $ host $(hostname) > > $ host junk > Host junk not found: 3(N

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Hans (hans.ullr...@loop.de): > Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015, 12:19:23 schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > I understood the question of the op in that way, that he wants to give a new > ip-address without installing new. > > The answer: > > You can edit /etc/network/interfaces , after this

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de): > * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]: > > [...] > > > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? > > $ host $(hostname) $ host junk Host junk not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) $ ... whether junk is localhost, another PC on the LAN,

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 August 2015 06:02:13 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:22:11 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a > > > static ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address > &g

Re: [solved] Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Have a look at https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_iproute2_commands as well as the whole chapter 5 of the Debian manual. The "modern" way to control the IP-address is $ ip addr -- Regards, jvp.

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015, 12:19:23 schrieb Thomas Schmitt: Hi, I understood the question of the op in that way, that he wants to give a new ip-address without installing new. The answer: You can edit /etc/network/interfaces , after this do /etc/init.d/networking restart. If you are using

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > The solution: ifconfig Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Or, as root, run Or as normal user: /sbin/ifconfig It's only a matter of shell PATH, not of permissions. Now why does my eth0 have so many inet6

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Ron
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:22:11 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static > > ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to > > know it before I plug it into my local network. > > The addr

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]: [...] > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? $ host $(hostname) Elimar -- .~. /V\ L I N U X /( )\ >Phear the Penguin< ^^-^^

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 August 2015 03:09:32 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static > ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to > know it before I plug it into my local network. > > The address is no

[solved] Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread rlharris
On Thu, August 27, 2015 2:09 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static ip > address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to know > it before I plug it into my local network. > > The address is not in

what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread rlharris
Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to know it before I plug it into my local network. The address is not in /etc/hosts, and there is no Network Manager Applet in the panel. How can I determine

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-20 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > >> (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. >> IIRC, when I didn't, using dynamic wireless connections kept clobbering >> the static DNS entries in /etc/reso

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
16.8.2011 18:31, Steve Kleene kirjoitti: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >> (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. >> IIRC, when I didn't, using dynamic wireless connections kept clobbering >> the static DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf.) > > T

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > process and then restart the network service (also run ifdown/ifup, just to > be sure). After that run

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > FYI, you can use Network Manager and /etc/network/interfaces together w/o > problems. ... Thanks. I'll look into this when I have some time. > (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. > IIRC, when I didn't, usi

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-16 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Steve Kleene, 15.08.2011: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > > > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. > > > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > > process and then

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:39:54 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > >> NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. "Arghh!!!" I mean... "ahh", that explains your pain :-P >> If so,

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > process and then restart the network service (also run ifd

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:01:17 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I 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 o

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 17:01:17 Steve Kleene wrote: > > I also wondered whether you were trying to run both your boxen with the > > same IP, since you say that the other one works. > > That is not the problem.  I have two distinct static IPs, one for each box. That seemed massively more likely,

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I 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. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:26:32 +

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 16:05:43 gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com wrote: > >All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces > > to > > > >the following: > > > >auto lo > >iface lo inet loopback > > > ># The primary network interface > >allow-hotplug eth0 > >iface eth0 inet s

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com
>All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces to >the following: >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback ># The primary network interface >allow-hotplug eth0 >iface eth0 inet static >address 10.97.14.253 >netmask 255.255.255.0 >gateway 10.97.14.1 >auto eth0 Have u tried p

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2011 at 11:49:24 +, 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 &g

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:10:15 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:48 + (UTC), Camaleón replied: > >> 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 set

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I 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. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:19:24 +053

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, 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

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/15/2011 05:19 PM, 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

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I 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. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:58:06 GM

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 + (UTC), Steve Kleene writes: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.97.14.253 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 10.97.14.1 > > auto eth0 > > Connectivity is

setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
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

Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-06 Thread Tom H
2009/9/5 Jesús M. Navarro : > On Friday 04 September 2009 14:21:25 John O Laoi wrote: >>> Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is >>> none remove the network manager. >> Indeed there was DHCP processes running: >> # ps aux | grep dhc >> root      3650  0.0  0.0    

Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, John: On Friday 04 September 2009 14:21:25 John O Laoi wrote: > > Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is > > none remove the network manager. > > Thanks Frank. > Indeed there was DHCP processes running: > > # ps aux | grep dhc > root 3650 0.0 0.0 0

static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-04 Thread John O Laoi
> Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is none > remove the network manager. > Thanks Frank. Indeed there was DHCP processes running: # ps aux | grep dhc root 3650 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Z08:31 0:00 [dhclient] root 4044 0.0 0.0 2204 6

Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-04 Thread frank
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:51 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Some daemon is resetting the NIC address to null. Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is none remove the network manager. Cheers frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-04 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, A question for networking gurus: My ip address keeps on being set to null at my workplace. I use my laptop at home and work. At home, I use DHCP to get an ip address from my ISP. No problems. At work, when I use #dhclient eth0 it looks for DHCP leases but finds none. So, I have a little s

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-14 Thread Rob McBroom
Sorry… I'm a couple of days behind on the list, but it doesn't look like this was ever solved for the OP. On 2008-Aug-10, at 7:32 PM, Vwaju wrote: I have an RCN cable modem (probably proprietary and not DOCSIS compliant) which connects to a Dell TrueMobile 2300 Wireless Broadband Router. The

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-12 Thread Bob Cox
t these settings are in the OP's /etc/network/interfaces at all. I would expect to find them in the router (or modem/router) and /etc/network/interfaces to contain only private addresses (192.168 etc). Assuming the router is doing NAT. [snip] > > I should also mention that although

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Given that this server is just a lab project (with no critical data), >> what's the worst that could happen? > > Perhaps some smart Russian/Chinese/... finds it and turns it into a > bot master, or s

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
pens to the packets > > At your suggestion, I have downloaded and installed tcpdump, but I > think it's going to take me some study (well worth it, I'm sure) to > learn how to use it. tcpdump will let you look at the packets that your network card sees, in the example above

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread s. keeling
Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Given that this server is just a lab project (with no critical data), > what's the worst that could happen? Perhaps some smart Russian/Chinese/... finds it and turns it into a bot master, or starts attacking DoD systems with it, or turns it into a clandestine p2p

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 16:32:41, Vwaju wrote: > > How is your computer *physically* connected to the internet? > > I have an RCN cable modem (probably proprietary and not DOCSIS > compliant) which connects to a Dell TrueMobile 2300 Wireless Broadband > Router. > The wireless router broadcasts to a Del

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Mike Bird
> > production server, only a *training* server. > > > > > > More to the point: Although sarge is no longer state-of-the-art, I > > > assume it should still be possible to configure it as an internet > > > server with a static IP address! > > > >

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
gt; > etc. > > > I am building an internet server, so I need to reconfigure networking > > to use a static IP address. I edited /etc/network/interfaces, using > > the static IP address leased to me by my RCN (and the other network > > parameters RCN provided). >

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