Pierre Fortin wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > > Felix Miata wrote:
> > > > I am trying to get Linux to peer with OS/2 and windoze. I have a Linux
> > > > book guiding me through.
> > > > When I execute the route command, the result is as follows:
> > > > Kernel IP routing table
> > > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> > > > st21s.atlantic. * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> > > > localhost.local * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 lo
> > > > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> > > > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> > > > default 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> > > > default 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
> > > > The book example looks rather different, and when I execute the command,
> > > > it takes a very long time to complete, unlike the OS/2 counterpart,
> > > > which completes instantly. Is this long time normal for Linux, over a
> > > > minute?
> > > No delay if you use "route -n"... right?
> > Correct.
> > > What does the "host:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf say..?
> > No such line in /etc/nsswitch.conf, but it does have:
> Sorry... my typo.
> > hosts: files nisplus nis dns
> Change this to:
> hosts: files dns
Changed.
> unless you are using NIS in which case you may want to have one vs both.
Doubt I'm using it. Dunno what it is.
> > > And why do you have 2 default routes with different metrics..?
> > That's what I'd like to know. Seeing that after the long delay executing
> > route sort of like announced a problem.
> Get rid of it with:
> route del default metric 1
Is this a one time time thing? Something to put in a startup conf file?
> You should look around your config files including
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
For anything in particular? Just to read the commenting?
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