OVH and Soyoustart use a strange pseudo-DHCP system where you have to configure the hwaddr with them, but still set the IP address on the server. The route is really strange and may be something completely different to the IP address, so a manual route has to be entered. OVH's help page is here https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/dedicated/network-bridging/
This is always a bit tricky, but now I have to install a Debian server for the first time, and it simply fails to work with the Debian installer. It keeps saying the default route doesn't work (it does with other distro's, no idea why the Debian installer don't work).
Anyway, so I just skipped that step, completed my server and went into add the details into /etc/network/interfaces, but now when I do a ifup ens18, I get the error that essentially say that the route command is not existing.
Does anyone know how to get Debian to install in this environment?
I guess I could just download and use the full CD, but I don't really know which to pick. Centos have a "minimal" that seems to work fine with that distro, does something similar exist here?