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[Joachim Backes]

Nick wrote:
> Hi All
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> With F10 if I use DHCP to assign my IP address everything goes OK
> 
> I get an IP address and a subnet mask and I get access to the interent
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> If I try to statically assign the IP address
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> Example 192.168.1.118 255.255.255.240 (please don’t complain about the 
> range it’s only an example because I don’t want to give out my public IP 
> for this server)

Do you have a correct /etc/resolv.conf with a valid nameserver entry?

JB

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> The network configuration takes it but when I reopen it I see it has 
> changed my subnet mask to 192.168.1.113
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> Also I am not getting onto the internet
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> Ifconfig shows eth0 as 192.168.1.118 255.255.255.255
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> Bcast 192.168.1.118
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> It also shows an IPv6 address even though I haven’t enabled IPv6
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> What is going wrong
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> I need to statically assign the IP address as this will use a public IP 
> address
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> Many thanks
> 


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>


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