Network settings

[Donald Wayne Chandler]

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Hi Tod,

I thought I was doing the same things you listed, but something keeps
changing the line in /etc/network/interfaces to "iface eth0 inet dhcp".
  Again, I have to change "System >Administration Networking" back to
the profile I named "Home" (the only profile I have created), then add

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

back into the interfaces file.

I'm trying to resolve this so I can cut down on headaches and medicinal
alcohol.


Thanks,
Wayne

Tod Merley wrote:
> On 9/1/06, Donald Wayne Chandler <mrwchandler84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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

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