This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > 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.
The short is answer is man interfaces
The long answer, which you will no doubt arrive at on your own, is
change
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to
iface eth0 inet static
and then create a stanza like:
eth0
address x.x.x.x
netmask y.y.y.y
gateway z.z.z.z
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Up and running, hopefully. Make sure you have some nameservers listed
in /etc/resolv.conf - DHCP puts them there, but when you have a static
setup, they have to be manually entered. /etc/hosts will need to have
the new address written in, but that's about it.
HTH,
Steve
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