Declan Moriarty wrote:
"Network is unreachable" is something I've seen every time I let my IRQ
be set where yours is :-D. Basically, it means it's throwing stuff at
the network card but not getting anything encouraging back
Did you sort out your IRQ, /etc/hosts, and resolv.conf or dismiss my
suggestions as irrelevant? Did you get my mail?
What IRQ does Mandrake use?
AARRRRGGHH! I forgot about acpi=off. Now I get IRQ=11 just like in
Mandrake.
However, I still cannot connect.
Just to make sure, I installed RP-PPPoE and set it up. Couldn't
connect. I switched back to the 'ipv4-static' service and started
again. The network just does NOT like the line
'GATEWAY=<gatewayaddr>.' When I "comment" this line, the network looks
like it starts fine, but I just can't connect. I open firefox and get
the warning "blah-blah can't be found. Check the name and try again."
Thunderbird reports "Can't connect to server."
Soooo. Back to the route tables. First of all, my ISP gave me the
following:
1. My static IP
2. Gateway IP
3. Subnet Mask IP
4. DNS Preferred IP
5. DNS Alternate IP
I ran 'routel' in both Mandrake and BLFS. There's one glaring
difference. In Mandrake there's a route that looks like this:
target gateway source proto scope
dev tbl
default 216.139.123.254
eth0
So I tried to add something similar to the BLFS tables by running
route add default gw [Gateway IP]
I got the message: 'SIOCADDRT Network is unreachable.' Doing Google I
found an article at this site:
http://www.uit.co.uk/practical-tcpip/w-rterr-015.htm
It describes these errors. For the one that I received, it says:
route add default gw 1.2.3.4
The routeaddr isn't on a directly connected network so this machine
would be unable to forward packets to it
That's exactly the format that I used. But I do not understand what to
do to make it right. This article gives hints on other errors, but not
on this one.
A short summary of my problem. Network wouldn't run because of driver
wouldn't load and bad IRQ. I've fixed both of those but now I can't
update my route tables--if this is the cause. One problem that persists
in all of this is the behaviour of the network with the GATEWAY line in
the ipv4 file. I'm wondering if the SIOCADDRT and the network behaviour
aren't two symptoms of the same problem. How to fix??
Oh, BTW. When I set up RP-PPPoE and created the
/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/pppoe file. The book said
to enclose the entries in ". For example, ONBOOT="yes." However, for
the corresponding file for ipv4, the LFS book does not include the
quotes. Same line from LFS, ONBOOT=yes. Which syntax is correct?
I haven't had the time to individually thank all of you who have been
trying to help me. I sure appreciate it.
Thanks,
Dan
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