Re: Confused about ethernet connections

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Grimble wrote:
> I've replaced the motherboard on this machine. Most things worked on 
> start-up, but there's a problem with ethernet connections. Before the 
> change, the ethernet connection was enp2s0, statically linked to 
> 192.168.1.9.
> Now  ip addr tells me the connection is enp4s0, dynamically linked to 
> 192.168.1.188. When I try to reconfigure it to static/192.168.1.9, I'm 
> told that "that address is already used by a connection that starts on 
> boot (enp2s0) and that I have to configure it not to start at boot."
> I don't understand where enp2s0 is declared, because ip adsdr makes no 
> mention.
> Help!

What do you see when you look 'inside' your router?  You can usually do 
it w/ a browser and the gateway IP address + your admin credentials.

-- 
Mike Easter

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Confused about ethernet connections Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-09-02 13:27 +0100
  Re: Confused about ethernet connections Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2025-09-02 09:19 -0700
  Re: Confused about ethernet connections "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-09-02 14:29 -0400
    Re: Confused about ethernet connections Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-09-04 12:14 +0100
    Re: Confused about ethernet connections Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-09-28 12:26 +0100
      Re: Confused about ethernet connections "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-09-28 11:45 -0400
        Re: Confused about ethernet connections Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-09-30 15:39 +0100

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