GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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During an install you will be asked whether to try DHCP to obtain your network information from a DHCP server. This (usually) requires that you identify your host as a host that your DHCP server knows or relies on the DHCP server allocating the next available IP address. Do so just to see if there is a DHCP server available to you.
If a DHCP server is not available then you will be prompted for appropriate network information.
Generally you need the following, where some sample addresses are
supplied:
IP 155.229.8.165 Netmask 255.255.255.192 Gateway 155.229.8.190 Domain togaware.com DNS 183.44.72.1 |
The information is recorded in /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf. Later on edit /etc/resolv.conf to add search togaware.com so that you can refer to your local machines by their name, without fully specifying the domain.
Some useful commands for trouble shooting are:
# netstat -n # ifconfig -a |
