static IP addressing

[Tom Morrison]

I'd just like to confirm, because my notes are inconsistent with what I'm needing to do.

If I want to assign a static address, I need to do the following:

load $net

10 NET.IPADDR = [192, 168, 0, 101]

20 NET.GATEWAY = [192, 168, 0, 1]

30 NET.DNS(0) = [8, 8, 8, 8]

40 NET.MASK = [255, 255, 255, 0]

save

I tried without the DNS assignment and it did not work.  I also tried with it pointing to our gateway, but no luck that way.  I finally pointed it to Google's DNS servers and it worked.

I'm assuming it should work if pointing to our gateway, assuming our gateway is configured to service DNS requests.

Is all this right?

[Paul Curtis]

Hi,

It should work if you point DNS to the right place, yes. Of course, the DNS server needs to be routable…

— Paul.