Network Connection Interface

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jan 25 15:04:12 UTC 2007


OOzy Pal wrote:

> On 1/25/07, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My Network Connection Interface eth0 is always defulted to
>> 192.168.20.11 in manual and dhcp.
>>
>> When I do ifconfig I get :
>>
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:EE:F4:FB
>>           inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>           inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:feee:f4fb/64 Scope:Link
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>           RX bytes:3716 (3.6 KiB)  TX bytes:2948 (2.8 KiB)
>>           Interrupt:177
...
>> eth0:11   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:EE:F4:FB
>>           inet addr:192.168.20.11  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
>>           Mask:255.255.255.0
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           Interrupt:177
>>
> No mater what I my linux box is insisting on 192.168.20.11. I put my
> linux box network config interfac to dhcp. I then turned it off. I
> changed my XP IP to manual 192.168.20.11. Then I turned on my linux
> box and it still graphed 192.168.20.11. Then my XP gave me a yellow
> box saying there an IP address conflict with other system. Any help?
> 

What's the question?  This config is definitely set to ensure that your
system uses 192.168.20.11.  Why do you have all those interfaces at all?

What are you using to connect, and what's your /etc/network/interfaces look
like?
-- 
derek





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