12.04.2 LTS, new install, network broken

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 July 2013 23:41:46 Tom H did opine:

> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 July 2013 16:53:26 Liam Proven did opine:
> >> On 6 July 2013 16:04, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Do you have DHCP?
> > 
> > Yes, for the lappy only, the rest of my local network is hard coded by
> > hosts file addresses.
> 
> /etc/hosts and dhcp have nothing to do with each other.
> 
> ?!
> 
> I assume that you mean that the laptop uses dhcp and that the other
> boxes have static addresses...
> 
Exactly.  And as of today, that problem is solved.

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