Network issue on a cloned server

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009, David Groos wrote:

> I believe that cloning, 'golden servers' from one machine to another can be
> an effective implementation strategy for educators who are novice Edubuntu
> users advocate FOSS.  

I guess there's an argument for it anyway.

> Hopefully it is simple.  I'm having a problem on the cloned machine dealing
> with network settings.  Besides /etc/network/interfaces, what other file or
> files do people think that I need to look into and maybe adjust to get my
> server functioning with a new static ip address for the WAN-side NIC while
> keeping everything else the same?  The server is serving thin clients using
> localapps.

/etc/network/interfaces is certainly the file you should be modifying to
change a static IP address.  If that's really the only change I'm not sure
what other file you should need to alter.  You would need to then restart
the networking service (sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart) to actually
apply that change.

What problem exactly are you finding?

Gavin