~# dhclient eth0 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:11:d8:82:25:4e Sending on LPF/eth0/00:11:d8:82:25:4e Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 Put this in '/etc/network/interfaces' file # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 And this in your '/etc/resolv.conf' file nameserver 207.172.3.8 nameserver 207.172.3.9