I recently was given authority over an old AlphaServer that has been lying around our college campus, unused, for several years. I installed Debian from the LinuxCentral CD and initially set the networking to use dhcp.
I was just told, today, that a static IP address visible to the world at large has been assigned to the server. From what one of the instructors has shown me from the server that he set up (using Windows eXtra Poopy) what he had to set up was the internal IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS servers. The campus servers, apparently, map from the external IP address to the internal one. Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure just what I need to change in these files. Also, these files only seem to address the IP address and the machine's hostname. Where do I set the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server numbers? What HOWTO should I be checking for all of this info? Since all of the other computers on campus are currently running some version of Windows, I would really like to get this up and running so that there is at least ONE machine runix NIX that the students have access to. Any help will be appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will live to be 150 years old, Please visit "The Meadery" at: unless your wife shoots you." http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
