Network settings

[Tod Merley]

On 9/1/06, Donald Wayne Chandler <mrwchandler84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I have 6.06 LTS on my Dell Inspiron 700m laptop on a home DSL
> connection.  The network setting keeps defaulting to DHCP when I boot
> up, and it won't connect.  Even though I have a network profile created,
> I have to manually set gksu network-admin to Static IP, and edit
> /etc/network/interfaces to remove the "auto eth0" entry.
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> Am I doing something wrong with gksu network-admin, or is there a better
> network app I could be using?
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Hi Donald Wayne Chandler!

If it were not for the fact that our little DSL modem's DNS nameserver
will not handle IPv6-DNS queries I would gladly use it's DHCP server
to obtain and set my IP settings.  As it is, setting up a static IP (I
hope my IP never changes it's nameserver addresses) is an easy "fix"
to this problem

"gksu network-admin" is what the "launcher" of "System >Administration
> Networking" is and is what I used to set up my static IP.  Please
note my /etc/network/interfaces file:

tod at tod-desktop:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.X.X
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.X.X

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp


auto eth0
tod at tod-desktop:~$

I have never edited this file!!  The system works fine and comes up
with the network and Internet access active.

When I was in the "Network Settings" window I clicked on the "Ethernet
connection" and then hit the "Properties" button.  In the resulting
"Interface properties" window I checked the "Enable this connection"
box chose "Static IP address" in the "Configuration" drop down and set
up the IP address, subnet mask, and gateway address.   I then hit the
"OK" button and then clicked the DNS tab and then added the DNS
(name)server I found present when I had allowed the DHCP server in our
DSL modem to set up the networking for the box (the one that was not
the box on our NAT'ed net).  You can see the DNS nameserver IP's and
domain names in /etc/resolv.conf.

Here is the result of ifconfig (a few "X"s thrown in for privacy - as above):

tod at tod-desktop:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4D:A1:8D:A5
          inet addr:192.168.X.X  Bcast:192.168.X.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:4bff:fe21:8da1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4979 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6341909 (6.0 MiB)  TX bytes:389903 (380.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x9800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:932 (932.0 b)  TX bytes:932 (932.0 b)

tod at tod-desktop:~$

Good Hunting!

Tod