On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:08 -0500, John Lowell wrote: > 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 > >> > >> > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > >> > 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
Stuffed if I know, but could you give us the exact gateway line from /etc/conf.d/net? > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
