New to Ubuntu

[bill purvis]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Nils Kassube wrote:
> bill purvis wrote:
> > Thanks for all the responses to my newbie problem.
> > I have another - I have just had to reboot my
> > system and when it came up the network was in
> > a weird state. This machine is networked via a server
> > running Mandrake which also acts as firewall etc.
> > trying to 'ping' my server I got the old 'network unreachable'
> > error message.
> > Running ifconfig eth0 gave:
> >
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:D1:BB:37:4E
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:d1ff:febb:374e/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:3727 (3.6 KiB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
> >           Interrupt:19 Base address:0x6000
> >
> > No, IP4 address. Running the System/Administration/Network
> > tool showed the correct IP4 static address. I changed this
> > slightly and ifconfig then showed the new IP4 address.
> > Changing it back to what I had originally set it resulted
> > in the network then being operational again.
>
> Check your /etc/network/interfaces -- it should look like this:
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.123
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.1.1
>
> Adjust the address line for the address of your machine and the gateway
> line for the address of the server.
>
>
> Nils

Thanks for the pointer, Nils. I've done a complete reinstall involving
several reboots and it seems to be all OK now. 

Bill

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