setting gateway IP from command line
I'm sure this is a very basic question but I have zero experience with debian. I work at a computer shop and we installed debian on a pair of new machines for a customer. He needs to assign an IP and gateway to one of them and could not figure out how to do it so he brought the machines back to us and begged. We are basically a windows only house. I'm the only linux user and all of my experience is with mandrake and slackware. I've always used X in both and there is no X on this machine. I just need the command name and I can do it from there. Thanks all! Abe Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chuthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: setting gateway IP from command line
Check out route. The command should be something like route add default gw IPaddressofgateway (this is off the top of my head, so might not be 100% correct) You can see the current route by route or route -n to see it without the machine names resolved. Once you have that, edit /etc/network/interfaces to something like this: iface eth0 inet static address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 255.255.255.0 network XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.255 gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ...and then do ifdown -a ; ifup -a to restart the interfaces. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this is a very basic question but I have zero experience with debian. I work at a computer shop and we installed debian on a pair of new machines for a customer. He needs to assign an IP and gateway to one of them and could not figure out how to do it so he brought the machines back to us and begged. We are basically a windows only house. I'm the only linux user and all of my experience is with mandrake and slackware. I've always used X in both and there is no X on this machine. I just need the command name and I can do it from there. Thanks all! Abe Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chuthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: setting gateway IP from command line
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 16:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this is a very basic question but I have zero experience with debian. I work at a computer shop and we installed debian on a pair of new machines for a customer. He needs to assign an IP and gateway to one of them and could not figure out how to do it so he brought the machines back to us and begged. We are basically a windows only house. I'm the only linux user and all of my experience is with mandrake and slackware. I've always used X in both and there is no X on this machine. I just need the command name and I can do it from there. Thanks all! Edit /etc/network/interfaces. Basically it will be something like # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.254 Other settings are possible. Man ifup and interfaces for details. -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting gateway
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Tomas Petersson wrote: Hello, I have just reinstalled debian 2.0 on my computer. For some reason the network has not been configured correctly. The netcard seems to work ok, and have a ipaddress assigned. Which commands do I have to issue to set up an default route so I can access the Internet or other computers on my LAN? I need to use route, or? /Tomas Petersson route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY (can use hostname too, if you have it entered into /etc/hosts) If you want to configure this on boot, put it in /etc/init.d/network Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - If at first you don't succeed, you must be using Windows. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Setting gateway
Hello, I have just reinstalled debian 2.0 on my computer. For some reason the network has not been configured correctly. The netcard seems to work ok, and have a ipaddress assigned. Which commands do I have to issue to set up an default route so I can access the Internet or other computers on my LAN? I need to use route, or? /Tomas Petersson
