Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:13:11PM +0100, Jon Ramsey wrote: Now for another stupid question... Given that the installation network setup allows me to choose to use dhcp am I likely to have a client already? (i'm at work so i can't check at the moment) Most likely, yes. If not, you can get it off the CD. One more thing, you'll need to reboot, or better yet, do /etc/init.d/networking restart afterward for changes to take effect. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3gRSJ5vLSqVpK2kRAkReAJ9gwHVSblZAQEsF+BuHKYrb27ZPmQCePqNi UnwBuSx37q4VX1lOh7SJgGI= =xkxk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:38:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: One more thing, you'll need to reboot, or better yet, do /etc/init.d/networking restart afterward for changes to take effect. Thanks Paul and Ron for your help. I did have the dhcp client already, but I couldn't get everything to work w/o a reboot ;( -- Jon Ramsey Bangoid 111 Stanmore Hill Stanmore Middlesex HA7 3DZ Tel: 020 8954 2900 Fax: 020 8954 8500 http://www.bangoid.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to reconfigure network settings easily?
Hi, I'm running a testing/unstable system on a new machine for home. I set up the machine at work with a static ip, gateway and dns for our work network. I've now moved the machine home and I just got cable broadband so I need to change the network settings to use dhcp - whats the best way to make the changes? I don't really know anything about dhcp and I'd prefer not to have to learn too much about it if possible - ideally I want to go thru the network setup part of the installation again or run some similar easy process. Thanks, -- Jon Ramsey Bangoid 111 Stanmore Hill Stanmore Middlesex HA7 3DZ Tel: 020 8954 2900 Fax: 020 8954 8500 http://www.bangoid.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:14:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:46:56AM +0100, Jon Ramsey wrote: I'm running a testing/unstable system on a new machine for home. I set up the machine at work with a static ip, gateway and dns for our work network. I've now moved the machine home and I just got cable broadband so I need to change the network settings to use dhcp - whats the best way to make the changes? By hand. Make sure you have a DHCP client installed before doing all this. In /etc/network/interfaces, you should see a section similar to this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 Change it to this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Your resolv.conf will be updated automatically by your DHCP client in most cases, consult your DHCP client's documentation for it's exact behavior. Hope this helps. Thanks Paul, this seems great (if almost too simple... ;)). Now for another stupid question... Given that the installation network setup allows me to choose to use dhcp am I likely to have a client already? (i'm at work so i can't check at the moment) The reason I ask is that I don't have network access for the machine thru linux until I set this up... potentially a bit of a catch 22. It's a dual boot machine, so I guess I could try and track down the necessary debs through windows if not. Thanks again, -- Jon Ramsey Bangoid 111 Stanmore Hill Stanmore Middlesex HA7 3DZ Tel: 020 8954 2900 Fax: 020 8954 8500 http://www.bangoid.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 06:13, Jon Ramsey wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:14:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:46:56AM +0100, Jon Ramsey wrote: I'm running a testing/unstable system on a new machine for home. I set up the machine at work with a static ip, gateway and dns for our work network. I've now moved the machine home and I just got cable broadband so I need to change the network settings to use dhcp - whats the best way to make the changes? By hand. Make sure you have a DHCP client installed before doing all this. In /etc/network/interfaces, you should see a section similar to this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 Change it to this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Your resolv.conf will be updated automatically by your DHCP client in most cases, consult your DHCP client's documentation for it's exact behavior. Hope this helps. Thanks Paul, this seems great (if almost too simple... ;)). Now for another stupid question... Given that the installation network setup allows me to choose to use dhcp am I likely to have a client already? (i'm at work so i can't check at the moment) The reason I ask is that I don't have network access for the machine thru linux until I set this up... potentially a bit of a catch 22. It's a dual boot machine, so I guess I could try and track down the necessary debs through windows if not. If you can mount any of the FAT drives on Linux (should be able to), you can grab the deb and the copy from there to the linux partition. There are 2 dhcp clients: pump (from Red Hat) and dhcp-client. Most people use dhcp-client, I think. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Regarding war zones: There's nothing sacrosanct about a | | hotel with a bunch of journalists in it. | | Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (Retired) | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
