I can now connect, but I don't have DNS: shelly@neptune:~$ ping 192.117.111.61 connect: Network is unreachable shelly@neptune:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 shelly@neptune:~$ sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0 shelly@neptune:~$ ping 192.117.111.61 PING 192.117.111.61 (192.117.111.61) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.117.111.61: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=1.21 ms 64 bytes from 192.117.111.61: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.507 ms ^C --- 192.117.111.61 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.507/0.859/1.212/0.353 ms shelly@neptune:~$ ping google.com ping: unknown host google.com shelly@neptune:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:04:a6:82:6b:eb inet addr:192.168.0.110 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::5604:a6ff:fe82:6beb/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:856 (856.0 B) TX bytes:7339 (7.3 KB) Interrupt:41 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:11440 (11.4 KB) TX bytes:11440 (11.4 KB) Why doesn't the DNS work, isn't this how to set it properly (to Google's public DNS): shelly@neptune:~$ cat /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4; prepend domain-name-servers 2001:4860:4860::8888, 2001:4860:4860::8844; And for that matter, why did I have to set the IP address manually? Shouldn't that be already set like this: shelly@neptune:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 auto lo iface lo inet loopback -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il