Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/6/14, Bob Proulx wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> # The primary network interface ... >> >> network ###.###.###.### >> >> broadcast ###.###.###.### >> > >> > Since you already fixed your issue I'll just comment on your interfaces >> > file.

Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> # The primary network interface > >> #allow-hotplug eth0 > >> auto eth0 > >> iface eth0 inet static > >> address ###.###.###.### > >> gateway ###.###.###.### > >> netmask 255.255.255.0 > >> network ###.###.###.### > >> broadca

Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 ian 14, 23:47:32, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > 3. it's safe to get rid of 'network' and 'broadcast', they are > > calculated from address and netmask ;) > > Actually not. Some home adsl modems and routers these days default to > 172.XX.. and 10. subnets, and Debian (Linux kernel?) choos

Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/5/14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 03 ian 14, 07:29:52, Tanstaafl wrote: >> # The primary network interface >> #allow-hotplug eth0 >> auto eth0 >> iface eth0 inet static >> address ###.###.###.### >> gateway ###.###.###.### >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> network ###.###.###.### >> broadcast ##

Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 ian 14, 07:29:52, Tanstaafl wrote: > > # The primary network interface > #allow-hotplug eth0 > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address ###.###.###.### > gateway ###.###.###.### > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network ###.###.###.### > broadcast ###.###.###.### Since you already fixed you

Re: Half-OT: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/3/14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 07:29 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: >> (Debian and FreeBSD being the top contenders) > > There's a Debian BSD port too: > https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD > For servers likely Debian stable is the best way to go, but I don't have > exper

SOLVED: Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-03 8:43 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 07:29:52 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Since I've configured eth0 for a static IP, why are these DHCP requests even happening? I've looked in /etc/init.d and don't see anything about a DHCP client. And most importantly, how do I stop them? I

Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 07:29:52 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > Since I've configured eth0 for a static IP, why are these DHCP > requests even happening? I've looked in /etc/init.d and don't see > anything about a DHCP client. And most importantly, how do I stop > them? I know I could probably uninstall

Half-OT: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 07:29 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > (Debian and FreeBSD being the top contenders) There's a Debian BSD port too: https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD And Arch Linux provides a FreeBSD port like approach: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System I made bad

New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP

2014-01-03 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, First posting to the list. I'm a long time Gentoo user, but I'm playing with my first Debian system since many years ago. I've been considering a wholesale change to another distro (Debian and FreeBSD being the top contenders) for some time now due to some of the changes that have