On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:16:25 +1200
Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a really weird problem with my laptop. What I've been doing that
> has worked up until now is connect my laptop and desktop via a loopback
> ethernet cable, and giving each a static IP address using the network manager
> GUI (I'm using GNOME), and we're off. When I try to do that now, the
> laptop's
> IP address changes to 169.254.93.80 within a few seconds of connecting (I can
> see this only with ifconfig, but not the GUI). Looking at the system log, I
> see a bunch of messages about DHCPDISCOVER and eventually a message from
> NetworkManager saying "No DHCP reply received. Automatically obtaining IP
> via
> Zeroconf." And goes on to say that it's using IP address 169.254.93.80
>
> I don't have the zeroconf package installed, and I can use the laptop on my
> school's LAN with no problems. The only recent change I have made to my
> system is installing Firestarter, but I turned all that off to try and solve
> this problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Aidan
Looks like there's a dhcp client running on this box, and it's failing to find
a dhcp server. Modify /etc/network/interfaces... ( change eth0 to the relevant
one, and the IP addresses... )
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to ( as a minimum )
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.0.0.254
Then run ( as root )
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 10.0.0.254
If you don't modify the config file as well as reconfiguring the interface,
then it'll work for a while, then the system will try to reset the interface,
and networking will fail again.
hth,
Steve
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Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
