Running Ubuntu 11.10 Serve in virtual box I am ever so slightly confused, When I am logged on as a user and cat ifconfig here are the results
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
user@shinobi:/etc/network$
the interface is configured to use DHCP
Then if i switch to Root and repeat the command
root@shinobi:~# cat interfaces
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.4
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
Which are the details I have configure via interfaces. But the strange thing is when I do a ifconfig It is using completley different I.P credential is Virtual Box doing something strange?
root@shinobi:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:b9:bc:e6
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb9:bce6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1026164 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:168888 (168.8 KB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd020
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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:340 (340.0
TX bytes:340 (340.0
