home lan box unable to escape subnet

macro · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 23

I'm on a small home network with an adsl router as my gateway on the 192.169.1.x subnet.

the router has dhcp facilities and if I dhcpcd my eth0 everything works fine (and dns entries are updated in resolv.conf)

However, when I try to manually specify an ip instead of using dhcp, I can't get out of my subnet. (I believe I also had this problem on initial setup, and I believe that when I specified the credentials using the net-setup prog everything worked fine).

This is using dhcp from the router

ben

Hi,

When you setup your network card manuallz you must take care of at least 3 things:
1.- IP address + subnet mask
2.- /etc/resolv.conf
3.- Routing table

I thing the third one is missing by you. with netstat -nr you can see a list of route that you have. And with route add a.b.c.d(destination address) netmask e.f.g.h gw 192.168.1.1(gateway address) you should be able to add the missing route. for example( i am not near a linux box so this is from memory)

route add 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.201 or
route add default gw 192.168.1.201 should be enough to let you out of your home net.

Ben

macro · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 23

ahh, it happened the way it always happens. As soon as I post, I find the answer myself and get to feel dumb, heh.

route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 seemed to do the trick.

is there some way to stick this into the configuration (like /etc/conf.d/net) or should I just stick it in my local.start ?

ben · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:27 am Post subject: doh

Argh, I had the right answer and you did not even read it. So I won't tell you how to put this info to have it automatically, na, na, nah

int /etc/conf.d/net:
at the end you have to uncomment the line which says:
gateway="eth0/192.168.1.201"

assuming your net card is eth0

This time please read it before you find the answer in /etc/conf.d/net comments

Bye

macro · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 23

thanks Ben!

Just a curse I pose =) I could search the net for 2 hours trying to solve something, and once I reach out for help the answer is staring me in the face most of the time.

but again, appreciate it!

ben · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:07 am Post subject: life experience

That nothing,

It's typical, did you see how talking to your wife/girlfriend about the mistery of say kernel compilation, or VPN over NAT helped greatly to solve things ? Usually just because it help you to clarifie the question, so that the answer become obvious.

Unless, of course, she actually IS a guru and HAS the answer, which sometimes happens too ;-)

Have fun

Ben