Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:33:19PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:28PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new > > message) be

Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:28PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: > > [snip] > > Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new > message) because it breaks the threading (no In-Reply-to: header). I use > reply and just

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-20 Thread s. keeling
steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > dear compadres, > > thanks for the answers and apologies for my stupidity (just too tired) > to use the reply-knob to tell you i had already solved my own question > by remembering the ifup and ifdown commands. Oh good! :-) Been there, done that, and expect

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-20 Thread steef
dear compadres, thanks for the answers and apologees for my stupidity (just too tired) to use the reply-knob to tell you i had already solved my own question by remembering the ifup and ifdown commands. regards, steef Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:23:36AM +110

Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-20 Thread steef
you are right, of course. was even too tired for that last night. thanks, steef Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: [snip] Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new message) because it breaks the threading (no In-Reply-t

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:23:36AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, steef shared this with us all: > >--} hi list, > >--} > >--} when i do contact with the internet is duly > >--} shut off. > >--} but: when i do nothing happens: i still cannot > >--} reach the internet. > >--} > >--}

Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: [snip] Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new message) because it breaks the threading (no In-Reply-to: header). I use reply and just replace the recipient with the list address. Regards, Andrei -- If you can'

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-19 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, steef shared this with us all: >--} hi list, >--} >--} when i do contact with the internet is duly >--} shut off. >--} but: when i do nothing happens: i still cannot >--} reach the internet. >--} >--} what is it that i miss? Just ifup eth0 and ifdown eth0 is probably all tha

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:31:06PM +, steef wrote: > hi list, > > when i do contact with the internet is duly shut > off. > but: when i do nothing happens: i still cannot > reach the internet. > > what is it that i miss? AFAIK with ifconfig you need to supply all (relevant) parameters: if

[Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]

2008-02-19 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:dumb ifconfig_question Resent-Date:Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:31:14 + (UTC) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:31:06 + From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-19 Thread steef
hi list, when i do contact with the internet is duly shut off. but: when i do nothing happens: i still cannot reach the internet. what is it that i miss? lspci gives: 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) nano /etc/network/interfaces tells me: # This fil