[NBLUG/talk] Networking newbie

A'fish'ionado afishionado at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 18:50:44 PST 2006


> Your interfaces file looks good to me, except one thing that is bugging me.
> Try this (not that I'm confident it will work, but it just gives me a
> bad feeling seeing it the other way and I'm thinking that the system may
> be trying to auto configure eth0 directly after it sees the "auto eth0"
> line):

Fixed it, and didn't notice a change.

> 2) cd /etc/init.d ; grep -i eth0 *
> ==>  If you get a lot of output, something is probably wrong, and you can try commenting out those items and rebooting

The only thing that pops up is dhcpd3... Could dhcpd3 be the culprit?

> 3) You said you were on dial-up...is this system on dial-up, or is it running ppp, or some other sort of dial-up utility?
>    To look for packages in Debian, you can run "dpkg -S packagename" and "dpkg -s ppp" to get specifics about the package.

I'm using wvdial. I run wvdial manually after the system is booted.

> FYI: There is something called dynamic dns that can help give you
> somewhat of a static IP when you only can get dynamic IP's.
> Here's how it works...  check out http://www.dyndns.org  (it's free!)

Ooh, I'll have to check that out. :-)

William



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