Hi everyone, In an effort to change form a dynamic to a staticIP configuration, I seem to have partially broken my network setup. Here's what I did:
-- added an extra line to /etc/hosts: 192.16.8.2.199 matts-mac localhost -- changed the devinition of eth0 in /etc/networking/interfaces from auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp to # replace dhcpwith static # auto eth0 # iface eth0 inet static # address 192.168.2.199 # netmask 255.255.255.0 # broadcast 192.168.2.255 # gateway 192.168.2.1 as you can see, I've since commented it out. At this point my interface was broken, and although I tried returning the files to their pristie state and rebooting, I didn't have much luck. Then (no doubt compounding the problem) I ran dpkg-reconfigure on any package that looked like it might help revert me to my original setup, like ifupdown, inetd, net-tools, network-base. In so doing I worry I might have screwed things up further... and after I returned the files I'd edited by hand to their original state, things were still broken. the situation now is the following: - on boot, any network relateddaemon takes forever to start up before some connection times out. But the system boots nonetheless. - ping breaks when applied to myself (127.0.0.1, 192.168.2.101, etc). I get this kind of output: a) with 127.0.0.1 matts-mac:~# ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss b) with the address assigned to me by the dhcp server on my home router: matts-mac:~# ping 192.168.2.101 PING 192.168.2.101 (192.168.2.101): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: wrote 192.168.2.101 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: wrote 192.168.2.101 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: wrote 192.168.2.101 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Invalid argument wierd, eh? And I notice that ping is sending 56 bytes to these addresses, but 64 bytes to other addresses. I have no idea what that signifies. meanwhile, lots of outgoing connections still seem to work. For instance, I can browse the web and make ssh connections. However, I can't seem to reach my computer even from outside (can't ssh to it, for instance). so, 2 questions: -- WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY SYSTEM? and -- HOW DO I FIX IT? the latter is more pressing than the former... I was hoping it would be possible to reduplicate the "configure your system" step from the debian install process, but I couldn't figure out whether that's possible. Anyway, thanks again, as usual, for the help! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
