Thank you. I got it to work. I had to remove the "eth0" line and and the lines below it. Now I don't get the overflow error and IMAP seems to work fine..
- -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Hood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problems getting static ip to work > 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. -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
