On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:12:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > yup dhcp sucks, for potato configure your interfaces in > /etc/network/interfaces > > something like this: > > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.0.0 > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > gateway 192.168.0.10 > > your addresses will obviously be different.
Cool, thanks. I guess a startup script reads this and does the appropriate
ifconfig and route commands? I like doing them manually a few times just to
learn what's going on. Hell, there's always a problem where you need the
manual commands. I wouldn't want to do it every time the system boots, but...
Mike
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