Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:27, Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > It is okay to have both specified, I usually do. > > > > When I dealt with this issue last (a few years ago), I was under the > > impression that only one needs to be used. Either I was mistaken then, > > o

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
H.S. wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > It is okay to have both specified, I usually do. > > When I dealt with this issue last (a few years ago), I was under the > impression that only one needs to be used. Either I was mistaken then, > or things have improved in the right direction. You are correct.

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 09:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Update: A little searching found this in 'man dhclient.conf'. > >The supersede statement > > supersede [ option declaration ] ; > >If for some option the client should always use a >locally-configured value or values r

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 09:13 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. >> Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card >> a fixed address. To do so, I took out the following line from >> /etc/network/interfaces: >> # The

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > How do I tell this "auto-configuration" to ignore the dhcp > > nameservers and to use the ones I specify instead? > > I haven't tried this but I would install 'resolvconf' and then specify > them with the dns-nameservers option listed above. I think that will >

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
H.S. wrote: > Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. > Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card > a fixed address. To do so, I took out the following line from > /etc/network/interfaces: > # The primary network interface > #allow-hotplug eth0

screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
Feeling a bit embarrassed here. Recently I seem to screwed up my network related stuff on my Debian Testing machine running KDE. Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card a fixed address. To do so, I to