On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Knud Sørensen wrote: > Hi Hi, Knud! > I have installed debian 2.2 and have some problems > getting the internet to work. > I have noticed something strange. > /etc/init.d/inetd is a empty file ! So, your on your way - good!
> if I move it to /etc/init.d/inetd.bak > and try to > dpkg -i netbase_3.18-4.deb > I get a error. Why !! Good question. A snippet of the error-message in question might help. > I might also be a problem with my /etc/gateways file > Does anybody have a example I can see!! debian now handles all the setup in /etc/network/interfaces. ----- iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 ----- BUT, a temporary default route to the internet will be setup along the workings of ppp (???) so I don't have to do anything. Uhm, you see i'm not quite sure & may be should shut up (anybody else?). This is because i have setup ipchains to forward any non-local adress to ppp. > 3) Why is there no link to /etc/init.d/networking form /etc/rc5.d ?? > > > Hope you can help ! wish i could've done better ;-) next time. greetings, martin