Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote:
Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others,
OK, *ifconfig *...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:37007 (36.1 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfc00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b
and *route -n *...
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
There is very clearly a problem with the Gateway number and, perhaps, the Destination as well? A kernel problem, perhaps?
user problem I think. Someone pointed out to you at the start of ther thread that you have the broadcast address wrong and you still haven't fixed it.
and then set gateway in the config file.
then restart the net.eth0 service.
Thoughts?
jlowell
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Nick,
I've solved the problem but it has nothing to do with the broadcast number and setting the gateway. Initially, changing broadcast to 192.168.1.255 and leaving the gateway setting where it has always been in /etc/conf.d/net, 192.168.1.1, gives no relief. Still can't ping the outside world. But running route add default gw 192.168.1.1 and pinging the web works. I've never had to do this before to get this box to the outside. The gateway address in /etc/conf.d/net has always been right, and frankly, I doubt if changing broadcast would have made any difference either. I can test that if you'd like. The way I read it, somehow the installation program isn't doing what it did the last time I installed gentoo.
I'd appreciate knowing why it was necessary for me to run this command to fix the problem when /etc/conf.d/net was edited properly. Is this a bug?
jlowell
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