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 old address in DHCP space

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 + (UTC), Ca

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 > change, I provide

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 +0530, Mihira F

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, I provided

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 GMT, Volkan YAZ

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 outp