Hot Diggety! Farrell Farahbod was rumored to have written: > first, i have used linux for close to five years, but this is the first > time i have tried any distro other than redhat. :) i know a fair amount > about linux, and i have compiled programs before, but i am not an > expert, as you will probably realize by the end of this email :)
You're doing just fine. > i am not sure if this is my problem, but when i run "route" on gentoo, > it prints this: > > Kernel IP Routing Table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metic Ref Use Iface > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 > loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo > default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 > eth0 Looks sane. > shouldn't the top entry by 192.168.1.1....not 192.168.1.0?? Nah, it's referring to a whole subnet, saying anything destined for an IP in that /24 netblock will exit through eth0. This is necessary to make the default route work properly. The default route itself is pointed at 192.168.1.1, and the flags looks fine. > also, when i am shown the login screen, it says: "This is farrell.(none) That's a known bug with agetty, I believe... someone submitted a patch for this on this mailing list a few weeks ago. Cosmetic but trivially fixed if you apply the patch. Mail me if you need a copy of the email with patch and installation instructions, if you can handle the patch utility. But first, double check the next suggestion (see below). > (Linux i686...)" but it should read farrell.freemans.org! :( farrell is > my hostname, freemans.org is the domainname in my home LAN (NOT on the > internet!) i set /etc/hostname, and /etc/dnsdomain correctly...at least > as best i can tell. and i setup /etc/hosts correctly, afaik. See if /etc/env.d/01hostname has the FQDN defined there. > and lastly, here is my /etc/conf.d/net file: Looks perfect. So, considering your settings looks to be exactly as it should be... I'm going to guess that either it's a eth0 issue in some way OR it's a linksys issue of some sort with NAT. Just to double check -- you don't have ipchains or a similar firewall utility loaded and enabled on your box? Can you post the output of: # ifconfig eth0 and # lsmod Which kernel tree package are you using? gentoo-sources? -Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list