[SGVLUG] Can I Manually Change an IP Address on my Local Machine?

[Matthew Campbell]

Good afternoon, sorry to hear about the problems you are facing.
Network problems are sometimes easy to fix, but intermittent problems
can be a real bear to diagnose.

If you have more modern Linux machines the command to list your current IP is:

ip addr

The older method to list all your interfaces (whether they are
configured or not) use:

ifconfig -a

If you have any Windows boxes you can get their configuration with

ipconfig /all

Getting all the machine's current states is a start but you really
want to figure out whether they are configured with a static address
or if they are getting a connection automatically though DHCP.  A
likely problem may be that the uVerse guys installed a conflicting
DHCP server in your house.  If you have two servers handing out
conflicting addresses you would see intermittent failures.

Good luck!

Matt



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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:28 PM, John Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
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> Hart Larry <chime at hubert-humphrey.com> writes:
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>> ... can I manually change an ip address of the local Debian machine?
>> And exactly what will I type?
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> Assuming the ethernet device is eth0, type
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>    ifconfig eth0 <new-address> up
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> where <new-address> is the intended new ip address, e.g. 192.168.1.9.
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> A way to check whether the ethernet device is eth0 is to type simply
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>    ifconfig
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> Before and after changing the ip address, you might also type simply
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>    route
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> to confirm that the Debian kernel routing table correctly tracks the
> change.
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>
>> This machine is still running at 157 days.
>
> Triple-digit up-time!  You must be doing something right.
> Congratulations!
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