Joel Hammer wrote: > Thanks. That did the trick. @HOME was expecting a hostname. > I am a bit puzzled by the startup scripts. I don't know what to put into > the ifcfg-eth1 script for the dynamic parameter. So, in my usual style, > I just ripped out all the fancy garbage (That is, stuff I can't > understand) in the network startup script and configured everything > manually. Here are the three lines required to configure the network > interface. These begin with the eth1 interface down. > > /sbin/dhcpcd -d -h cc641790-a eth1 > . /var/run/dhcpcd-eth1.info > /sbin/route add -net default gw $GATEWAY eth1 > > This doesn't do anything about name resolution, I THINK. (I don't have > a clue about what happens to the /etc/hosts file, if anything.) Hard to > be sure, since the old and the new servers are still the same. We don't > switch over for a couple more days. >
/etc/resolv.conf is where you want Comcast's DNS servers, on a 'nameserver <IP>' line. I've always configured mine manually, but there may be a way to have dhcpcd or dhclient do it. HTH, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
