The only thing that springs to mind is to make sure there is not another device on the network with that IP.
does your connection work if you manually assign the same IP that DHCP assigns you? Jason On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > I put a second NIC in my machine so I can run LTSP. Before I get to > that, I want to change eth0 from DHCP to static, since I run Apache for > my in-house web site. When I try to use the tool provided from the icon > in the upper right hand portion of the screen, I get an opportunity to > edit the settings for eth0 and eth1.When I apply the change for eth0 > (from DHCP to IP address: 192.168.0.253, Netmask: 255.255.255.0, > Gateway: 192.168.0.1) I lose my connection to the Internet. If I change > it back to DHCP my connection returns. I've tried running sudo ifconfig > eth0 down, and then up, and even though ifconfig shows eth0 as up with > 192.168.0.253 for its IP address, I can't get out through my router. > > Any thoughts on a reliable way to manage my two NICs in Ubuntu 10.04? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
