I wrote: > I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network > setup incomplete: > > $ ping www.debian.org > PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable > ping: wrote www.debian.org 64 chars, ret=-1 > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 142.130.48.235 > netmask 255.255.252.0 > > Anything wrong with that? > > - > > I couldn't ping past my gateway.
Thanks to Miguel Griffa and Viktor Rosenfeld who both advised me to speficy the gateway in the /etc/network/interfaces file. There is no need to manually add a route when this is done. I still can't ping past my gateway but all other services work (it's possible that I haven't been able to ping past my gateway for a while and hadn't yet noticed!) Thanks! Peter
