Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table [FIXED]

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: In slackware's rc.inet1.conf interface configuration file the default gateway is set on 192.168.55.4. Using this command: Louis, Tomas, Russell, et al.: Fixed the issue. The reason is that this motherboard does not find the eth0 interface, only

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
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

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Sep 27, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> The IP 192.168.55.7 is NOT in the network 192.168.0.0/24 (mask of >> 255.255.255.0) The only valid IPs in 192.168.0.0/24 are 192.168.0.1-255 >> (don't try to allocate .255, its used). > >

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Russell Senior
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 wrote: >Having been a while since I last set routes I've lost a step when > setting > the

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table [CLOSE]

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: I'll close this thread and move it to the slackware forum on LQ. The system took awhile to delete the incorrect default route. Just now I looked at the kernel routing table and found only the loopback route. Adding route add -net 192.168.55.0

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table [CLOSE]

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Part of the problem, or the entire problem, seems to be that eth1 has no inet(4) address, only an inet6 address. I don't know where this originates as /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf has eth1 configured for 192.168.55.7 netmask 255.255.255.0, and the default

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: How do I delete the 192.168.0.0 route? Typing 'route del network 192.168.0.0 eth1' returns 'network: host name lookup failure'. Part of the problem, or the entire problem, seems to be that eth1 has no inet(4) address, only an inet6 address. I

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: The IP 192.168.55.7 is NOT in the network 192.168.0.0/24 (mask of 255.255.255.0) The only valid IPs in 192.168.0.0/24 are 192.168.0.1-255 (don't try to allocate .255, its used). Louis, Mea culpa for not noticing this! Thanks for pointing out the

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Sep 27, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> The gateway has to relate to an subnet that is configured on an interface. >> If you want to make the default route 192.168.55.4, one interface >> (physical, or logical) must be on the

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: The gateway has to relate to an subnet that is configured on an interface. If you want to make the default route 192.168.55.4, one interface (physical, or logical) must be on the 192.168.xxx.xxx subnet, where 192.168.55.4 is included. For example, if

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Thought I wrote this. The network is 192.168.0.0. This host is 192.168.55.7, and the netmask is 255.255.255.0. The kernel routing table on my current desktop is: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, John Meissen wrote: What's the IP address and netmask of the system you're trying to set this on? 192.168.55.7netmask 255.255.255.0 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread John Meissen
What's the IP address and netmask of the system you're trying to set this on? >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

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Louis Kowolowski
The gateway has to relate to an subnet that is configured on an interface. If you want to make the default route 192.168.55.4, one interface (physical, or logical) must be on the 192.168.xxx.xxx subnet, where 192.168.55.4 is included. For example, if the subnet is 192.168.55.0/24, then your

[PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

2018-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [PLUG] Distinguishing instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-27 Thread David Bridges
You might look into the Meld application. It is file/directory compare tool with multiple panes that works pretty well although it can be a bit slow when working with large remote directories. It's available via apt-get on Debian. -- David On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 05:11 -0500, Richard Owlett

Re: [PLUG] Distinguishing instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 04:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager