Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-20 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Steve Kleene sk...@syrano.acb.uc.edu wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. IIRC, when I didn't, using dynamic wireless connections kept clobbering the static DNS

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
16.8.2011 18:31, Steve Kleene kirjoitti: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. IIRC, when I didn't, using dynamic wireless connections kept clobbering the static DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf.) That's

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-16 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Steve Kleene, 15.08.2011: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: NM calls -by default- dhclient, so... is NM running? Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. If so, stop NM (/etc/init.d/network-manager stop) or kill dhclient process and then restart the

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: FYI, you can use Network Manager and /etc/network/interfaces together w/o problems. ... Thanks. I'll look into this when I have some time. (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. IIRC, when I didn't, using

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) NM calls -by default- dhclient, so... is NM running? If so, stop NM (/etc/init.d/network-manager stop) or kill dhclient process and then restart the network service (also run ifdown/ifup, just to be sure). After

setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided network operations with my MAC address, which I got from the

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 + (UTC), Steve Kleene writes: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.97.14.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.97.14.1 auto eth0 Connectivity is fine except

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:58:06 GMT, Volkan

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/15/2011 05:19 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided network operations

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:19:24 +0530, Mihira

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:10:15 +, Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:48 + (UTC), Camaleón replied: If adminds are requesting you the MAC address you may be still need to setup a dynamic configuration for your adapter (DHCP). So I would first ask them what kind of setup it

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2011 at 11:49:24 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com
All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces to the following: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.97.14.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.97.14.1 auto eth0 Have u tried putting the

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 16:05:43 gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com wrote: All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces to the following: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:26:32 + (UTC),

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 17:01:17 Steve Kleene wrote: I also wondered whether you were trying to run both your boxen with the same IP, since you say that the other one works. That is not the problem.  I have two distinct static IPs, one for each box. That seemed massively more likely, but

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:01:17 +, Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: NM calls -by default- dhclient, so... is NM running? Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. If so, stop NM (/etc/init.d/network-manager stop) or kill dhclient process and then restart the network service (also run

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:39:54 +, Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: NM calls -by default- dhclient, so... is NM running? Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. Arghh!!! I mean... ahh, that explains your pain :-P If so, stop NM