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
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maybe one more thing, can you ping your gateway?
ping -c 4 192.168.0.1
Craig
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