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calculating the right range for network

Asked by Michael Smith

Greetings,
I am trying to correctly populate the network in Ubuntu server. and I am using my PC to try to comprehend what needs to be incorporated in the /interfaces file. I currently have these details below as an example:-

ADDRESS 192.168.0.2
NETMASK 255.255.255.0
NETWORK 192.168.1.0
BROADCAST 192.168.1.255
GATEWAY 192.168.1.1 ( the access to the router, but not the WAN address, which is completely different)

So in summary I would like to know what piece of hardware the ADDRESS relates to as opposed to the NETWORK; and also if the IP range looks correct above.

Much thanks indeed.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You will need 2 lines above the text you have.

auto eth0
Iface eth0 inet static

The lines will then setup eth0.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

The IP addressing looks fine.

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Michael Smith (m-c-smith) said : 		#3

thank you very much indeed

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Michael Smith (m-c-smith) said : 		#4

Many thanks, this has solved the problem

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#5

The setup has a glitch:
The IP address (192.168.0.2) is not in the range of the network (192.168.1.0/24). Maybe you confused 1 and 0 in the third octec?