Well your /etc/network/interfaces should read:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 203.79.110.81
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 203.79.110.1
your /etc/resolv.conf was fine from before then.
if you do that and ifdown/ifup eth0 then you should be sweet.
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Bogacki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 7:01 AM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable
> As far as I am aware, I spoke to the only Linux using techie in Paradise
> cable (based in Auckland which has not been cabled: TelstraClear has
> concentrated on Wellington and Christchurch where the geography [and
> economics ?] are easier; Wellington was recently compared with Stockholm
> as "the most cabled capital city" ...) who used Mandrake at home.
>
> He told me to use
>
> DNS servers 203.96.152.4
> 203.96.152.12
>
> IP static 203.79.110.81
>
> Gateway 203.79.110.1
>
> Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
>
> I don't know where the 192.168- range came from. I assume it was
> calculated by linuxconf which I read, googling around, was the
> thing to use.
>
> Adam Bogacki
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding]
>
>
> From: "Rob B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Adam Bogacki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:27 PM
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable
>
>
> > Seems strange that your cable provider would assign you an address in
> the
> > 192.168- range. Does Paradise cable use DHCP to assign the address?
> If
> > so, try making sure that either pump or dhcpd are installed, and
> comment
> > out all the existing eth0 stuff and put the following into
> > /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 dhcp
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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