Hi,

I've just re-installed Debian and by mistake chose to set the IP address by DHCP but I need to have it as a static IP and can't remember how to do it.

Can someone please put on the right path ?

Thanks

Steve

You'll find it in /etc/network/interfaces and should look something like;

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0

that's great ... and now set correctly .. thanks !

Hi,

I thought I was sorted but it seems not ....

Running Debian Woody, behind a D-Link router. I can ping externally from another machine on the same router so I know the router and DSL are fine. I can ping between machines internally fine but when I try to get out I get this:

lobo:~# ping www.bbc.co.uk
PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.224.86): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote www.bbc.net.uk 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote www.bbc.net.uk 64 chars, ret=-1

--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
lobo:~# ping 212.58.224.86
PING 212.58.224.86 (212.58.224.86): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 212.58.224.86 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 212.58.224.86 64 chars, ret=-1

--- 212.58.224.86 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

As I say, I have just re-installed Debian on a new HDD [my other one crashed last night]. I suspect it is something simple and not sure I am in the right forum so I apologise for that.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks
Steve

oh .. and I've just seen this aswell:

lobo:/etc/init.d# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:48:54:82:B3:0E
inet addr:192.168.4.10 Bcast:192.168.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1701 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1698 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:174650 (170.5 KiB) TX bytes:176348 (172.2 KiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800

and not sure what the packet errors mean and if they might help.

Thanks
Steve

Have you set the isp DNS in /etc/resolv.conf?

try to specify the default gateway, and while you're at it the broadcast address to:

hope it helps

Rom