static IP configuration problem

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Your problem is almost certainly your gateway's address -- it's far more
likely (though not guaranteed by any means) to be 192.168.1.1, not .15. 
Do a "netstat -rn" (when it's working), and see what's to the right of
"0.0.0.0", thusly:

kend at hal:~$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway     Genmask      Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
10.20.0.0    0.0.0.0     255.255.0.0  U        0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0      10.20.1.1   0.0.0.0      UG       0 0          0 eth0

This shows that "10.20.1.1" is my default gateway.

-Ken

Greg Rundlett wrote:

>
> # The next stanza creates a static IP address for this machine
> #iface eth0 inet static
> #name Ethernet LAN card
> #address 192.168.1.11
> #netmask 255.255.255.0
> #network  192.168.1.0
> #broadcast  192.168.1.255
> #gateway  192.168.1.15