On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:44:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:57:35AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Thomas H. George wrote: > [snip] > > > The network is still unreachable although all the machines > > on the lan respond to pings. > > > > Could the problem be the IP address 169.254.122.180 is still assigned to > > eth0? I have been unable to remove this and it is always the first item > > in the output of ifconfig. It is now followed by an entry for eth0:0 > > which contains the 192.168.2.102 address. If the firewall sees > > 169.254.122.180 it will drop the message on the floor. > > can I suggest you us ip (from the iproute package). > > If you interface was originally a dhcp interface, you have to kill > dhcpclient as well as assigning a new address to the interface. > > try > ip addr show dev eth0 > > then > find and kill any dhcp clients looking on eth0 > ip a flush dev eth0 > > then add your address information > > ip a a dev eth0 192.168.2.102/24 > > use > > ip route show > > to show your route table > > Alex > The ip commands removed the dhcp clients and assigned the address 192.168.2.104 to eth0 but still no gateway . I am reading an online manual and tried adding 'via 192.168.2.102' to the ip command but this was clearly wrong. ip responded, "Either 'local' is a duplicate or 'via' is a garbage. I'll study the manual more closely. In any event iproute is clearly the way to go and fortunately "-d lenny" installed it when I built the Debian Live CD.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Tom > > > > > > > > > - -- > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) > > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > > > iD8DBQFIWTBuu4tRirKTPYwRAqiRAJ4zwnPByjQjkydUAV+VhTKylO+s/wCdFXPT > > > H8BselapzUv71JdxBsvLOhw= > > > =hV56 > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > > > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > "...I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away > from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that > experience." > > - George W. Bush > 05/05/2006 > Washington, DC _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel