[TriLUG] Debian Guru's needed - network setup

[Vestal, Roy L.]

iface eth0 inet dhcp

inet dhcp <- what does inet do?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pitzer [mailto:uncleben at mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:13 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Debian Guru's needed - network setup


Roy,

You might have already figured this out by now, with Jim's help, but
here is an example of an interface configured for DHCP on a Debian Woody
machine (should be the same no matter what version of Debian).  This is
my eth0 interface, configured to come up at boot time and configured for
DHCP. Just edit /etc/network/interfaces and make an entry like this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Should do the trick for you.  Obviously, substitute eth0 with the proper
name of your interface.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 15:50, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> I need to configure an old Toshiba laptop for DHCP. I'm used to RHL . I
> cannot figure out what service starts the networking, where ifcfg-eth0 is,
> etc...
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