SuSE 9.0 and static IP

[arioch]

Hi

For some reason, i can only get connected to the net with my SuSE 9.0 box if i use DHCP. I am convinced i'm typing the right parameters except for one. I have to type the local IP for the machine and then some remote IP below. Is that the IP of the provider or what?

If anybody seeing this, has wrestled with a static IP setup on a SuSE box and gotten away with it, please hi(n)t me. (and anybody else for that matter!).

[DSwain]

i believe you'll have to be more specific as to what the "remote IP" is, does it have some type of label? Are you using a router that acts as a DHCP server by itself? Do any of your other computers use DHCP or Static IP addresses (assuming we're talking about a network here)

[arioch]

The field where i'm supposed to type in the address isn't anymore specific itself. It just says "remote IP"...

There's a DHCP running in my Cisco 677 router, but that shouldn't/hasn't mattered with other distro's. Mandrake, Libranet, MEPIS and others did just fine. A machine set to "static" just ignores all DHCP traffic on a network.

Currently, this is my only machine.

[DSwain]

I see. I wasn't sure how it would handle DHCP and Static trying to work agaisnt each other, but if it works for you then its fine.

I'm no networking expert but I would think maybe that field could be blank, or otherwise would act like the "nameserver" ip adress under /etc/hosts which is pretty much the ISP provider. Otherwise i'm not sure, if i were you i would just use DHCP, as i do here.