On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:41 am, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi all ! > > I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called > Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but > I'm failing to get the access to the Net working. > Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP address > as before, configuring it as 'static dhcp - hostname pump' in > /etc/interfaces. But when I try _any_ ping (any but my own address and > localhost, of course), it fails with a "Network is unreachable" > message. It's strange to me that the ping fails, but the names are > correctly resolved to their respective IPs. > I hope this is a good enough description of my problem. I'm not any > expert, so it's possible I'm missing something shamely (is this an > english word ?) obvious, I'm tired of reading many HOWTOs and rebooting > once and againg without success. > > Thanks in advance !! > > Daniel
shouldn't the path be /etc/network/interfaces?
