Re: how to use external router?

From: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. (pagan_prince_at_bigfire-hsv.org)
Date: 12/20/03

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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:30:47 -0600

    On Saturday 20 December 2003 10:26 am, Jeff Waltermire wrote:
    > Greetings All,
    > I am coming to Debian after using SUSE for a couple of years because
    > I want to easily update packages. I am very used to the YAST program
    > to help setup things.
    >
    > I have a cable modem and a D-Link 614+ router that work fine in SUSE
    > and WinXP. I would like to use that on my Debian Box but how do I
    > set up Debian to use my gateway of 192.168.0.1 (D-link router)?
    > Where do I setup that my eth0 as being 192.168.0.6/255.255.255.0 on
    > my LAN?
    >
    > Sorry for such newbie questions. I have poked around the /etc/
    > directory and even ran an "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.6 netmask
    > 255.255.255.0 -up at a root command prompt but it returned something
    > like "ifconfig command not recognized."
    >
    > Any help is much appreciated.
    >
    > Jeff

    I pretty much use DHCP even though I have an external router as well. I
    find that to be the easiest solution to home networking. 

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