Ok, this is just weird: I tried what you said, but all that's in
/etc/network/interfaces is...
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
...but then I thought "What if I try this while running Firestarter's
firewall?", so I told Firestarter that I set my address manually, started it,
and tried connecting to my desktop machine again, and now it STAYS connected.
And it still works now when I stop Firestarter's firewall. What the heck?!
Does anyone know what Firestarter is messing with, and where it is? (Maybe
someone here who's been using it for a while, and knows it well.) I'll try
looking on the Firestarter website, but this seems like a bug to me. And I'm
using the stable (I know what that really means) Debian package, so it's not
as if I compiled it myself.
Robert Fisher wrote:
Aidan Gauland wrote:
I'm using Debian Etch, but why the fudge has this problem come up out
of nowhere? Or rather, where the fudge has this problem come from all
of a sudden?
I do not know how it happened but I found this with Google too...
You need to alter /etc/network/interfaces. The entry for the card needs
to be changed from something like
iface eth0 auto dhcp
to
iface eth0 auto static
ie change dhcp to static
you also need to add lines for address, netmask etc. man interfaces
should help you with the different options and syntax of the file
-Aidan
Robert Fisher wrote:
Looks to me like dhcp is trying to get an address.
What distro are you using?
Each distro seems to have a different way to disable DHCP.
Rob
