> I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a pcmcia card.
> I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP
> address.
> by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in the appropriate
> fields (I actually used pcnetconfig, so it generated the file for me)
> My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.2.6
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.2.0
> gateway 192.168.2.1
This is invalid. The 'eth0' on its own line shouldn't be there.
The rest is OK:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.2.0
gateway 192.168.2.1
> ifconfig -a
> does seem to give me information that eth0 is configured (I can even it
> ping it from another machine on the network)
>
> I am noticing 2 problems.
>
> On boot up I get a "neighbor table overflow" message. I was told this
> has something to do with the loopback not being configured, but I
> thought my interfaces file should take care of this.
Yes it should.
> More importantly, my IMAP daemon does not seem to be retrieving any mail
> from my Pop server.
> I tried doing a
> % telnet 127.0.0.1 imap2
>
> and it hangs......
>
> I think I'm going in circles here and I'd appreciate it if someone can
> explain to me what the problem is and how I might fix it?
Try eliminating the 'network' line from the eth0 iface definition.
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Thomas
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