I am installing vmware server on etch. when i change my interfaces file to the one in the how to the internet fails to work i also resolv. conf file to the one suggested in the the how to here is what my interaces files and resolv.conf look like # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback address 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 reslov.conf nameserver 62.30.112.39 nameserver 194.117.134.19 nameserver 62.30.0.39 here is my ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:5C:AF:1F inet addr:77.101.58.22 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fe5c:af1f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1341027 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:14465 (14.1 KiB) Interrupt:193 Base address:0xa000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3380 (3.3 KiB) TX bytes:3380 (3.3 KiB) nb IP address DHCP generated hotchilli
Is this machine directly on the internet? If it is then remove network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 if not, then something is weird because you got this ip 77.101.58.22
re etch and vmware server thanks for post and pm lando I did as suggested auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 but when restarting network this was the out put debian:/etc/network# /etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up eth1. done. so i changed eth1 to eth0 and got this reply debian:/etc/network# /etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0. done. hotchilli
Why did you use eth1 when you only have eth0? You can install VMware Server using your original working /etc/network/interfaces file.
Thanks for your post falko. I have used my original /etc/network/interfaces file On page 2 of the howto http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_vmware_server_howto_p2 it says: The VMware Management interface is now installed on your system. You will now be able to login the the VMware management interface with the URL: https://192.168.0.100:8333/ To login use the username root and the password of your root system user what would be the url in my case? hotchilli
run ifconfig in the shell and there you'll see your ip. Use th ip you see there to connect to with the same port as the howto say's
