I think you have the broadcast and default gateway mixed up. A broadcast address is something else entirely.
eth0 should know nothing about your cable connection. Therefore: IP: 192.168.1.1 broadcast: 192.168.1.255 (stuff sent to this goes to every 192.168.1.x machine. try "ping 192.168.1.255" for example) netmask: 255.255.255.0 also I thought eth0 should be at the end of the line? I could be wrong... or it might vary between versions. 'man ifconfig' for more information. so try: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 then you add a default route to your routing tables to tell your machine where to send data that isn't bound for the local (192.168.1.x) network. Something like: route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.x where 192.168.1.x is the internal address of the machine/router with the cable connection. Unless of course you mean you only have the 1 machine, and eth0 *is* the cable connection device? In which case, why bother with the internal address at all? Cheers, Gareth On Tuesday 17 June 2003 22:42, Adam Martin wrote: > I am on a cable connection > IP is 202.0.x.x > I want to set up an internal address of 192.168.1.1 > > Could someone please tell me what the correct command for ifconfig > should be... ie. > > ifconfig eth0 202.0.x.x broadcast 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
