[Gllug] broadband connection in Lenny

[john gennard]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:35 +0100, john gennard wrote:
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>> Sorry, I should have said it's BTinternet using the phone line and the 
>> modem box supplied.
>>     
>
> I think the BT supplied modem is actually a router which does NAT and
> dhcp by default so all you should need in your /etc/network/interfaces
> configuration is:
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>   
Thanks. I've now solved the problem by re-running the installer and not
going to sleep part of the way through. I had hoped to avoid doing this
and wish I could have remembered the instruction to re-run the missing
section alone.

John.




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