[TriLUG] Debian Guru's needed - network setup

[Ed Warnicke]

It specifies the network familly that the interface is 
being brought up for ( 'inet' is ipv4, you could also
in principle use 'ipx' for ipx or 'inet6' for IPv6.

Ed
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 16:56, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> 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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