Static Network Address, Routing Issue

[Joe Zicarelli]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:03:51 +0000, Vic Ayres <vic at ayresonline.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 15:43 -0500, Joe Zicarelli wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just done a fresh Custom (minimal) Warty install.  Using DHCP,
> > networking works fine.  However, I wish to give it a static IP
> > address.  After reading 'man interfaces', I thus edited my
> > /etc/network/interfaces:  (Note that I have added line numbers here)
> >
> > 01 # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> > 02 # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> > 03
> > 04 # The loopback network interface
> > 05 auto lo
> > 06 iface lo inet loopback
> > 07
> > 08 # The primary network interface
> > 09 auto eth0
> > 10 #iface eth0 inet dhcp
> > 11 iface eth0 inet static
> > 12     address 192.168.1.2
> > 13     netmask 225.225.225.0
> <snip>
> This last line should be :-
> netmask 255.255.255.0

Whoops!  *grins*  Thanks, that fixed it, everything works perfectly now!

Regards,
Joe Zicarelli