On Tuesday 04 October 2005 12:34, Nigel Henry was like: > Hi Tim. As you've spent all afternoon waiting for the big music remix > fracas to start again, Or possibly the opposite. ;) > and Dave Philips hasn't come back on what additions > to make to the wiki, I thought I'd put my 2 cents worth in. The man page is > fine if you are really up to speed with Linux, but having looked through it > earlier on, I wouldn't know where to start with a blank page > in /etc/network/interfaces, as with roll your own Gentoo. Admittadly most > distro's have a partially contructed page. I think an addition could be > made regarding a nameserver entry in /etc/resolv.conf, also, perhaps, an > example of an /etc/network/interfaces file, with instructions to change IP > address and gateway if necessary for static setups. Perhaps showing changes > that need to be made if wanting to use dhcp. Personally I don't see any > point in using dhcp unless you are using more than 10 or so machines. I've > put > my /etc/network/interfaces file below from one of my Debian installs if you > want to add it to the wiki as an example. > > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installation > # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > ?address 192.168.0.7 > ?netmask 255.255.255.0 > ?network 192.168.0.0 > ?broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ?gateway 192.168.0.1 > > iface dsl-provider inet ppp > ? ? ?provider dsl-provider > # please do not modify the following line > ? ? ?pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf > > This is on a client machine going through a layer 2 switch to a Smoothwall > Express 2 firewall, connected to the net by serial modem. > > You're free to use this to update the wiki, as no ones going to hack my > private address. I'd do it myself, but have never updated wiki pages > before. Thanks for your suggestions Nigel. I'll mull this over. Most of this stuff is fairly clearly documented in Debian reference and most network cards get auto-configured. Also, the GNOME guis are very good for relative newbies. That said, I will add a little more info and pointers to this section as it obviously isn't that clear. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
