Using Debian, I have tried to set a static IP on my local network. When I boot the machine, the networking fails. If I edit the interface, switching over to a DHCP configuration, things work, and if I then switch things back to the static configuration, things work. It just doesn't like to start in static. Can someone please splain me what I'm doing wrong, or how to figure out what is causing the problem.
First, I editted my (non-working) configuration, UNcommenting the line highlighted in green, and commenting the lines highlighted in pink.
liberty:/home/greg# vi /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# This entry denotes the loopback (127.0.0.1) interface.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# This entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth0
# The next line would create a dynamic IP address using a local DHCP server
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# The next stanza creates a static IP address for this machine
#iface eth0 inet static
#name Ethernet LAN card
#address 192.168.1.11
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#network 192.168.1.0
#broadcast 192.168.1.255
#gateway 192.168.1.15
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# This entry denotes the loopback (127.0.0.1) interface.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# This entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth0
# The next line would create a dynamic IP address using a local DHCP server
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# The next stanza creates a static IP address for this machine
#iface eth0 inet static
#name Ethernet LAN card
#address 192.168.1.11
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#network 192.168.1.0
#broadcast 192.168.1.255
#gateway 192.168.1.15
Then I restarted the network
liberty:/home/greg# /etc/init.d/networking restart
Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
Reconfiguring network interfaces...cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No such file or directory
ifup: interface lo already configured
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:2c:02:a7:d8
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:2c:02:a7:d8
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.15
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.15
bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
done.
Reconfiguring network interfaces...cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No such file or directory
ifup: interface lo already configured
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:2c:02:a7:d8
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:2c:02:a7:d8
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.15
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.15
bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
done.
And here is what I saw from dmesg
liberty:/home/greg# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.27-2-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Mon May 16 17:18:17 JST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff3000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
767MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 196592
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 192496 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 SOYO ) @ 0x000f6840
ACPI: RSDT (v001 SOYO AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x2fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 SOYO AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x2fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 SOYO AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1533.209 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3060.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 770644k/786368k available (1186k kernel code, 15336k reserved, 452k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1533.1247 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 266.6305 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2666305, slice: 1333152
CPU0<T0:2666304,T1:1333152,D:0,S:1333152,C:2666305>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb540, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3099] at 00:00.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4024 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 4024k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide: late registration of driver.
PDC20265: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0d.0
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:DMA
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD400BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue f0829720, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue f082985c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-32123S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 78125000 sectors (40000 MB)
native capacity is 78125040 sectors (40000 MB)
hda: 78125000 sectors (40000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77504/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [4863/255/63] p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 >
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding Swap: 1566292k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e7020000-e70207ff] Max Packet=[2048]
irda_init()
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0011060000003213]
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xec00, 00:50:2c:02:a7:d8, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 0021.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
cmpci: version $Revision: 6.16 $ time 17:21:54 May 16 2005
cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xd800 irq 11
cmpci: chip version = 055
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:22:23 May 16 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe800, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
irda_init()
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
