help needed for Ubuntu 8.04 on HP 6720s notebook

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Abhishek Bawkar
> <abhishek.linux4me at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> iface eth0 inet static
>> address 100.100.102.192
>> netmask 255.255.255.0
>> gateway 100.100.100.1
>
> Shouldn't that be gateway 100.100.102.1 not 100.1 ?  (or maybe the
> address should be 100.192 not 102.192)  Your gateway is not in the
> default subnet.
>
> If your gateway is outside the LAN of your eth card, then you'd have
> to add a static route to get there, which is possible I suppose, but
> I'm betting on a typo.

Actually, on further reflection - I suppose the whole problem could be
the netmask - a larger netmask would put the address and the gateway
on the same subnet.

At any rate, hopefully you see what I mean - check your settings
against what's working in Windows.

Brian

(and don't ask me about proxy ARP :-)