Setting up a static IP
Jussi Lehtola
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 9 22:10:14 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 23:04 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really should know this one...
>
> Setting up a static IP using s-c-network
>
> I've set the IP for my box to be 192.168.0.200, put in the subnetmask as
> 255.255.255.0 and gateway as 192.168.0.1 (address of my router, netstat
> has this as it's last entry IIRC).
> /etc/init.d/network restart does the the network restart and that's it.
> The network is set fine (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 shows the IP, netmask etc
> are set correctly), but the outside world is not reachable.
>
> How do I set up a static IP which allows access to the outside world?
Stupid question: did you try accessing outside IP addresses or domain
names? You need to set the name servers as well if you want domain names
to work.
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Jussi Lehtola
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