Hello,

I'm on a network with a router (E-tech), I'm the only linuxcomputer here in the house. I've put off the dhcp server in the router, switching to static ip. The router's manual explains perfectly how to configure the windows computers here, and they work fine now. But I just can't get my Debian box back online. At boot-time I don't get any error messages, and the mta just starts. But when I try to get on the internet (opera) or refresh my packages list in aptitude all connections fail (server not found on every website).

My settings:

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.105
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

#iface eth1 inet static
# address 192.168.1.100
# netmask 255.255.255.0
# gateway 192.168.1.1

old config of /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


/etc/resolve.conf:
search home.nl
nameserver 213.51.129.170
nameserver 213.51.144.170


output of ifconfig:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4360 (4.2 KiB) TX bytes:4360 (4.2 KiB)

dmesg:
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19-2.5 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xdc00, 00:0c:6e:c4:fd:54, IRQ 23.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.

I changed for the windows computers in tcp/ip properties "specify an ip adress", "enable DNS" and in that tab I filled Host: testhost, domain: testdomein, DNS server search order: 192.168.1.1 (which is the router's ip). And for gateway I did 192.168.1.1.

What have I done wrong or forgotten? I hope anyone can help me, I'm quite a networking newbie...

Greetings and thanks in advance,

Corien

since you turned off dhcp you will also need say your box so. this is done in /etc/network/interfaces:

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.x <yours here
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1 < maybe your router

comment the old eth0 lines out.
this will make a static IP at bootup.
/etc/resolv.conf seems all right if they are you ISP's DNS

oh - sorry. just saw you did that right.

try
ifconfig eth0 up (any messages?)

the ethernet card seems to be recognized ok.

Hey mritch,

I got it online. Thanks for your help.

Solved it by modifying my old config. I now have in my /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

Quite sure the auto eth0 did it... When I read back the manpage of interfaces it's logical, but before I knew the manpage was quite hard to understand...

I'm really happy! That's the kick of linux, you can't get it done, and suddenly you find it out . I love it . Now I can bring my server online. That's what this all started about. I've installed apache. Not that I have anything usefull to put on a website, but I want to get it online, just for the fun and for the learning. I've already learned quite something about networking...

Thanks anyway, greetings,

Corien

fine.