[Tfug] Dynamic DNS and Qwest?

Harry McGregor micros at osef.org
Tue Jan 23 15:58:04 MST 2007


Joel Howard wrote:
> Harry McGregor wrote:
>   
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> Can you ping 192.168.0.1?
>>   
>>     
> No -- you're right - network unreachable and ifconfig shows eth0 and lo
> as down. Funny because I configged eth0 in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 -- IP and
> subnet mask are there, along with dhcp yes. I expected it to run at boot
> -- guess it didn't.
>   
It's been a long time since I have touched slackware.

but dhcp = yes and an ip and subnet mask are inherently exclusive options.

http://www.slackware.com/config/network.php#rc.inet1

I would suggest  setting USE_DHCP=no

and is your GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"

                                  Harry

>> What does ifconfig -a look like?
>>
>>                 Harry
>>     





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