I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided network operations with my MAC address, which I got from the output of ifconfig -a:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr aa:00:04:00:0a:04 All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces to the following: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.97.14.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.97.14.1 auto eth0 which shows the new IP and gateway given to me by network operations. Exactly such a file works fine on a second machine I have with a static IP. It also conforms to the instructions here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_the_network_interface_with_the_static_ip I didn't list broadcast since the older machine's interfaces file seems to work fine without it. DNS stuff is handled by /etc/resolv.conf. Connectivity is fine except that it's not at the assigned static IP (as judged by ifconfig -a). Network operations believes they did their end correctly. Is there anything else I should be doing at my end? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20110815t134745-...@post.gmane.org