I'd imagine that Rich is not using DHCP because he would like to be able to identify the hosts on his network and doesn't feel like doing local DNS/DHCP pair.
If my hunch is right, I would suggest using centralized DHCP IPv4 and general network configuration for all hosts + let DHCP assign some defined IPs based on their MAC. That way, the user should see and manage the whole network configuration for all hosts in one place and avoid annoyances like this one AND still have stable/defined IPv4s. This is just a suggestion to consider, given that this recurring type of problem on the forum. Tomas On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 12:07 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > Just a fwiw, DHCP. Static network configuration works too, if you know what > you are doing. However, the empirical evidence suggests you would benefit > from DHCP. > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 09:47 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > > Having been a while since I last set routes I've lost a step when > > setting > > the default gateway. > > > > The routing table has both loopback and LAN routes. Now I need to set > > the > > default gateway and the kernel tells me there's a SIOCADDRT (address) > > error. > > > > In slackware's rc.inet1.conf interface configuration file the default > > gateway is set on 192.168.55.4. Using this command: > > > > route add default gw 192.168.55.4 > > > > returns the above error that the network is unreachable. > > > > The route man page example has a host name for the gateway and I've > > tried > > that, too, with the same result. > > > > What have I missed here? > > > > On a curious, somewhat related issue, while there's only one Ethernet > > port > > on the motherboard ifconfig sees it as eth1 rather than eth0. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
