Setting up a static IP

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 23:04 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I really should know this one...
> 
> Setting up a static IP using s-c-network
> 
> I've set the IP for my box to be 192.168.0.200, put in the subnetmask as
> 255.255.255.0 and gateway as 192.168.0.1 (address of my router, netstat
> has this as it's last entry IIRC).
> 
> netstat -nr reports
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0
> eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0
> eth0
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0
> eth0
> 
> 
> /etc/init.d/network restart does the the network restart and that's it.
> The network is set fine (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 shows the IP, netmask etc
> are set correctly), but the outside world is not reachable. 
> 
> How do I set up a static IP which allows access to the outside world?
----
that seems correct to me - what is output of?

ifconfig
cat /etc/resolv.conf

Craig


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