Debian 6.0
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Networking Settings
2011/03/05
[1] Change to static IP addres if you use Debian as a server.
root@dlp:~#
vi /etc/network/interfaces


# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5)..

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
# make it comment

#
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# add follows

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.30
# specify IP address

network 10.0.0.0
# specify network address

netmask 255.255.255.0
# specify subnet-mask

broadcast 10.0.0.255
# specify broadcast address

gateway 10.0.0.1
# specify default gateway


root@dlp:~#
ifdown eth0
# stop eth0

root@dlp:~#
ifup eth0
# start eth0

[2] Disable IPv6 if not needed.
root@dlp:~#
echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

root@dlp:~#

root@dlp:~#
eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:4d:45:9f:57

inet addr:10.0.0.30 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:5444 (5.3 KiB) TX bytes:6145 (6.0 KiB)

Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000


lo
Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

 
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