I created a virtual machine in vSphere to become a syslog server. I got the virtual machine created, the Ubuntu 12.04 Server iso attached and the OS installed.
The next step was to created a network interface, attach it to the virtual switch and get networking (route, dns) to come up and function… I tested the IP address by bringing it up on eth0 and testing with
ifconfig eth0 192.168.117.28 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
The worked, and adding a default route also worked…
route add default gw 192.168.117.1
But just editing /etc/network/networking and adding
root@mbo1-log01:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# eth0
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.117.28
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.117.1
dns-nameservers 63.251.129.1 63.251.129.33
…wasn’t enough – restarting networking at this point failed…
The additional steps are:
- /etc/network/interfaces as above
- /etc/hosts, add the interface IP address and hostname (DNS doesn’t work here yet because of firewall – that may be why this was required…)
- echo [hostname] > /etc/hostname
- restart hostname service – /etc/init.d/hostname restart
- restart networking – /etc/init.d/networking restart
edit the following:
Then go through and verify all is well…
root@mbo1-log01:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:0f:bb:78
inet addr:192.168.117.28 Bcast:192.168.117.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe0f:bb78/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:278 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:24957 (24.9 KB) TX bytes:29391 (29.3 KB)
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:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12046 (12.0 KB) TX bytes:12046 (12.0 KB)
root@mbo1-log01:~# hostname
mbo1-log01
root@mbo1-log01:~# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.117.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0
192.168.117.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
root@mbo1-log01:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 63.251.129.1
nameserver 63.251.129.33
root@mbo1-log01:~#
—doug