Setting up a static IP

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Aug 9 22:28:09 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 15:23 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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
----
maybe one more thing, can you ping your gateway?

ping -c 4 192.168.0.1

Craig


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