On 01/29/13 08:13, slhac tivist wrote:
Thank you. Your suggestions have helped. I gave up on DHCP., and can
consistently get a link, but I can't even ping the router...here's some
info:
cat /etc/hostname.athn0:
inet 192.168.1.101 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.255 nwid "THENAME" nwkey
"THEPASSWORD"
Are you really using WEP?
which results in the following:
sudo ifconfig athn0:
athn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr *************
priority: 4
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS5 mode 11g)
status: *active* # <----YAY NICE!
ieee80211: nwid DAMEHIGH chan 11 bssid 0*************** 41dB nwkey
<not displayed>
inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::e6ac:35ff:fea9:5a9d%athn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
Hmmm as you get "active", indeed it seems so. Well, to each his own.
Also, if you consider your MAC address a secret, you might as well hide
the automagic ipv6 address too... But then again, why would you? :-)
OTOH i dont know how the ipv6 address reacts to lladdr random, but even
less the need to hide it. :-)
route -vn show:
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu
Prio Iface Label
default 192.168.1.254 UGS 0 0 - 12 athn0
127/8 127.0.0.1 UGRS 0 0 33196 8 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 0 33196 4 lo0
192.168.1/24 link#1 UC 1 0 - 4 athn0
192.168.1.100 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 33196 8 lo0
192.168.1.254 link#1 UHLc 1 21 - 4 athn0
224/4 127.0.0.1 URS 0 0 33196 8 lo0
Any ideas???? I'm totally stumped! Some miscellaneous anomalies that may or
may not be related include:
-tcpdump won't capture on athn0
-when i boot, /etc/netstart sets the default route to 192.168.1.253 ... and
i always need to change it to 192.168.1.254 for the re0 to work
-kind of weird...they've got a dsl box that provides
internet+wireless...and a router connected to it (with the wireless turned
off and dhcp off) using it as a hub ? to wire the rest of the house with
ethernet?
Do you have an /etc/mygate ?
/Alexander
